The North Carolina 1st District runs along the Virginia Border from Granville County in the Northwest to Perquimans County in the Northeast, and extends South to Jones County. Major Towns include Elizabeth City, Roanoke Rapids, Henderson, Rocky Mount, Greenville, Washington, Wilson, Goldsboro, Kinston and New Bern. The Demographics of the District are changing rapidly as the Inner Banks experiences explosive growth.
The District includes all of the following 13 Counties:
Bertie
Chowan
Edgecomb
Gates
Greene
Halifax
Hertford
Martin
Northampton
Pasquotank
Perquimans
Warren
Washington
The District includes portions of the following 10 Counties:
Beaufort
Craven
Granville
Jones
Lenoir
Nash
Pitt
Vance
Wayne
Wilson
District 1 Party Affiliation
Democratic - 79%
Republican - 20%
Other - 1%
District 1 Demographic Breakdown
Blacks - 50%
Whites - 49%
Other - 1%
District 1 Gender Breakdown
Female - 57%
Male - 43%
In the last 10 years the District has become significantly more Republican, nearly doubling. Demographic breakdown has moved from overwhelmingly black to nearly equal. Gender breakdown has become less predominantly female, but still is not as blanced as population overall.