Table 80
NORTH CAROLINA
Full-time Law Enforcement Employees
by Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties, 2015
Metropolitan/Nonmetropolitan | County |
Total law enforcement employees |
Total officers |
Total civilians |
---|---|---|---|---|
Metropolitan Counties | Alamance | 261 | 122 | 139 |
Alexander | 72 | 41 | 31 | |
Brunswick | 260 | 161 | 99 | |
Buncombe | 394 | 247 | 147 | |
Burke | 110 | 87 | 23 | |
Cabarrus | 322 | 195 | 127 | |
Caldwell | 112 | 73 | 39 | |
Catawba | 192 | 141 | 51 | |
Chatham | 130 | 99 | 31 | |
Cumberland | 609 | 307 | 302 | |
Currituck | 95 | 63 | 32 | |
Davidson | 186 | 118 | 68 | |
Davie | 63 | 56 | 7 | |
Durham | 453 | 178 | 275 | |
Edgecombe | 137 | 54 | 83 | |
Forsyth | 498 | 216 | 282 | |
Franklin | 110 | 71 | 39 | |
Gaston | 217 | 124 | 93 | |
Gaston County Police Department | 144 | 129 | 15 | |
Gates | 12 | 11 | 1 | |
Guilford | 627 | 261 | 366 | |
Haywood | 115 | 60 | 55 | |
Henderson | 206 | 136 | 70 | |
Hoke | 120 | 64 | 56 | |
Iredell | 221 | 157 | 64 | |
Johnston | 176 | 110 | 66 | |
Lincoln | 161 | 109 | 52 | |
Madison | 41 | 23 | 18 | |
Mecklenburg1 | 1,155 | 296 | 859 | |
Nash | 132 | 83 | 49 | |
New Hanover | 474 | 355 | 119 | |
Onslow | 254 | 124 | 130 | |
Orange | 142 | 90 | 52 | |
Pamlico | 51 | 19 | 32 | |
Pender | 106 | 60 | 46 | |
Person | 85 | 46 | 39 | |
Pitt | 160 | 124 | 36 | |
Randolph | 208 | 152 | 56 | |
Rockingham | 146 | 103 | 43 | |
Rowan | 175 | 129 | 46 | |
Stokes | 67 | 47 | 20 | |
Union | 276 | 198 | 78 | |
Wake | 973 | 385 | 588 | |
Wayne | 188 | 114 | 74 | |
Yadkin | 69 | 35 | 34 | |
Nonmetropolitan Counties | Alleghany | 32 | 16 | 16 |
Anson | 46 | 28 | 18 | |
Ashe | 61 | 31 | 30 | |
Avery | 25 | 24 | 1 | |
Beaufort | 91 | 55 | 36 | |
Bertie | 38 | 24 | 14 | |
Bladen | 65 | 47 | 18 | |
Camden | 20 | 17 | 3 | |
Carteret | 89 | 59 | 30 | |
Caswell | 50 | 33 | 17 | |
Cherokee | 67 | 26 | 41 | |
Chowan | 36 | 17 | 19 | |
Clay | 41 | 17 | 24 | |
Cleveland | 174 | 102 | 72 | |
Columbus | 121 | 80 | 41 | |
Dare | 152 | 66 | 86 | |
Duplin | 108 | 76 | 32 | |
Graham | 30 | 14 | 16 | |
Granville | 107 | 52 | 55 | |
Greene | 31 | 23 | 8 | |
Halifax | 98 | 64 | 34 | |
Harnett | 221 | 124 | 97 | |
Hertford | 55 | 25 | 30 | |
Hyde | 21 | 15 | 6 | |
Jackson | 73 | 50 | 23 | |
Lee | 106 | 69 | 37 | |
Lenoir | 133 | 69 | 64 | |
Macon | 76 | 50 | 26 | |
Martin | 35 | 31 | 4 | |
McDowell | 63 | 43 | 20 | |
Mitchell | 18 | 17 | 1 | |
Montgomery | 55 | 30 | 25 | |
Moore | 129 | 76 | 53 | |
Northampton | 56 | 33 | 23 | |
Pasquotank | 74 | 52 | 22 | |
Perquimans | 15 | 13 | 2 | |
Richmond | 87 | 56 | 31 | |
Robeson | 226 | 132 | 94 | |
Rutherford | 136 | 79 | 57 | |
Sampson | 126 | 93 | 33 | |
Scotland | 61 | 34 | 27 | |
Stanly | 84 | 52 | 32 | |
Surry | 106 | 78 | 28 | |
Swain | 45 | 24 | 21 | |
Transylvania | 75 | 60 | 15 | |
Tyrrell | 17 | 12 | 5 | |
Vance | 72 | 37 | 35 | |
Warren | 67 | 36 | 31 | |
Washington | 44 | 22 | 22 | |
Watauga | 67 | 42 | 25 | |
Wilkes | 127 | 73 | 54 | |
Wilson | 147 | 76 | 71 | |
Yancey | 37 | 19 | 18 |
- 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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