Demographics

Winston-Salem/Forsyth County is located in the Piedmont Triad region of north central North Carolina. North Carolina is the 11th most populous state in the nation, with an estimated 2004 population of 8,541,221 The state is part of the South Atlantic region, which the Census Bureau estimated having a population of over 50 million in the year 2000. This region is one of the fastest growing parts of the U.S.

The Piedmont Triad region is a twelve county area of over 1.5 million persons and is equidistant from Washington, D.C. and Atlanta. The counties that comprise this region are Alamance, Caswell, Davidson, Davie, Forsyth, Guilford, Montgomery, Randolph, Rockingham, Stokes, Surry and Yadkin.

The urbanized core of this region is the ten-county CSA known as the Winston-Salem—Greensboro—High Point Combined Statistical Area, with a current estimated population of 1,456,361.

Population

Region	2000	2004
North Carolina	8,046,807	8,541,221
Piedmont Triad Region (12 counties)	1,464,990	1,517,790
Greensboro—Winston-Salem—High Point  (10 counties)Combined Statistical Area (CSA)	1,414,656	1,456,361*
Winston-Salem MSA	421,961	441,607
Forsyth County	306,067	320,764
Winston-Salem	185,776	195,536
Kernersville	17,126	20,690
Clemmons	13,827	16,962
Lewisville	8,826	12,601

*Most recent from 2004

Population Projections

	2005	2010
Piedmont Triad	1,552,222	1,668,387
Greensboro—Winston-Salem—High Point CSA	1,499,953	1,612,873
Forsyth County	324,361	343,703

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