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Where to eat in North Carolina
Savor Scout covers 22 North Carolina cities, together home to about 3,358,746 people. Pick one and it opens with the location already set.
Eating out in North Carolina, by the numbers
Across the 17 counties these cities sit in, the median works out at 19.8 food businesses per 10,000 residents against a national median of 19.4. That puts North Carolina close to the national middle.
The densest of them is Wilmington at 31.4 per 10,000; the thinnest is Rocky Mount at 10.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns (2022), counted at county level by NAICS code. Business counts, not a quality ranking.
North Carolina cities
- Apex — 21 per 10k
- Asheville — 28.6 per 10k
- Burlington — 19.1 per 10k
- Cary — 21 per 10k
- Chapel Hill — 18.6 per 10k
- Charlotte — 22.5 per 10k
- Concord — 18.6 per 10k
- Durham — 20.1 per 10k
- Fayetteville — 19.3 per 10k
- Gastonia — 15.9 per 10k
- Greensboro — 19.8 per 10k
- Greenville — 20.6 per 10k
- Hickory — 20.5 per 10k
- High Point — 19.8 per 10k
- Huntersville — 22.5 per 10k
- Jacksonville — 17.1 per 10k
- Kannapolis — 18.6 per 10k
- Raleigh — 21 per 10k
- Rocky Mount — 10 per 10k
- Wilmington — 31.4 per 10k
- Wilson — 17 per 10k
- Winston-Salem — 19.5 per 10k
Guides
- What to eat when… — by situation, not cuisine.
- Food guides — how to find the good version of a dish.
- Eating out with a restriction
- Campuses in North Carolina — 18