Table 80
NORTH CAROLINA
Full-time Law Enforcement Employees
by Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties, 2012
Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan | County |
Total law enforcement employees |
Total officers |
Total civilians |
---|---|---|---|---|
Metropolitan Counties | Alamance | 277 | 121 | 156 |
Alexander | 49 | 30 | 19 | |
Brunswick | 207 | 141 | 66 | |
Buncombe | 367 | 228 | 139 | |
Burke | 114 | 85 | 29 | |
Cabarrus | 320 | 194 | 126 | |
Caldwell | 103 | 67 | 36 | |
Catawba | 178 | 130 | 48 | |
Chatham | 110 | 85 | 25 | |
Craven | 124 | 72 | 52 | |
Cumberland | 542 | 297 | 245 | |
Currituck | 101 | 64 | 37 | |
Davidson | 192 | 127 | 65 | |
Davie | 55 | 48 | 7 | |
Durham | 443 | 169 | 274 | |
Edgecombe | 135 | 53 | 82 | |
Forsyth | 487 | 206 | 281 | |
Franklin | 103 | 65 | 38 | |
Gaston | 214 | 124 | 90 | |
Gaston County Police Department | 207 | 131 | 76 | |
Gates | 12 | 11 | 1 | |
Guilford | 649 | 253 | 396 | |
Haywood | 94 | 52 | 42 | |
Henderson | 184 | 129 | 55 | |
Hoke | 112 | 60 | 52 | |
Iredell | 227 | 160 | 67 | |
Johnston | 179 | 103 | 76 | |
Jones | 25 | 15 | 10 | |
Lincoln | 154 | 101 | 53 | |
Madison | 40 | 23 | 17 | |
Mecklenburg1 | 1,179 | 330 | 849 | |
Nash | 134 | 77 | 57 | |
New Hanover | 432 | 325 | 107 | |
Onslow | 253 | 119 | 134 | |
Orange | 139 | 105 | 34 | |
Pamlico | 44 | 15 | 29 | |
Pender | 110 | 61 | 49 | |
Person | 83 | 43 | 40 | |
Pitt | 318 | 124 | 194 | |
Randolph | 225 | 163 | 62 | |
Rockingham | 141 | 99 | 42 | |
Rowan | 182 | 132 | 50 | |
Stokes | 63 | 43 | 20 | |
Union | 246 | 183 | 63 | |
Wake | 917 | 381 | 536 | |
Wayne | 155 | 90 | 65 | |
Yadkin | 58 | 32 | 26 | |
Nonmetropolitan Counties | Alleghany | 26 | 11 | 15 |
Anson | 62 | 32 | 30 | |
Ashe | 56 | 25 | 31 | |
Avery | 49 | 26 | 23 | |
Beaufort | 80 | 46 | 34 | |
Bertie | 36 | 24 | 12 | |
Bladen | 73 | 47 | 26 | |
Camden | 20 | 18 | 2 | |
Carteret | 83 | 47 | 36 | |
Caswell | 55 | 34 | 21 | |
Cherokee | 63 | 26 | 37 | |
Chowan | 33 | 16 | 17 | |
Clay | 41 | 15 | 26 | |
Cleveland | 162 | 90 | 72 | |
Columbus | 116 | 66 | 50 | |
Dare | 121 | 63 | 58 | |
Duplin | 90 | 66 | 24 | |
Graham | 23 | 15 | 8 | |
Granville | 92 | 54 | 38 | |
Greene | 49 | 23 | 26 | |
Halifax | 68 | 63 | 5 | |
Harnett | 215 | 119 | 96 | |
Hertford | 55 | 22 | 33 | |
Hyde | 21 | 16 | 5 | |
Jackson | 74 | 48 | 26 | |
Lee | 86 | 52 | 34 | |
Lenoir | 111 | 63 | 48 | |
Macon | 66 | 47 | 19 | |
Martin | 36 | 34 | 2 | |
McDowell | 60 | 45 | 15 | |
Mitchell | 18 | 17 | 1 | |
Montgomery | 56 | 30 | 26 | |
Moore | 116 | 74 | 42 | |
Northampton | 50 | 25 | 25 | |
Pasquotank | 48 | 42 | 6 | |
Perquimans | 14 | 11 | 3 | |
Polk | 37 | 28 | 9 | |
Richmond | 82 | 51 | 31 | |
Robeson | 232 | 132 | 100 | |
Rutherford | 127 | 75 | 52 | |
Sampson | 129 | 92 | 37 | |
Scotland | 65 | 38 | 27 | |
Stanly | 88 | 63 | 25 | |
Surry | 99 | 57 | 42 | |
Swain | 45 | 23 | 22 | |
Transylvania | 78 | 59 | 19 | |
Tyrrell | 16 | 10 | 6 | |
Vance | 75 | 37 | 38 | |
Warren | 64 | 36 | 28 | |
Washington | 42 | 21 | 21 | |
Watauga | 74 | 44 | 30 | |
Wilkes | 116 | 69 | 47 | |
Wilson | 135 | 82 | 53 | |
Yancey | 35 | 20 | 15 |
- 1 The employee data presented in this table for Mecklenburg represent only Mecklenburg County Sheriff's Office employees and exclude Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department employees.
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