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Archer Lodge, North Carolina.

A town in Johnston County. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Johnston County’s.

Living in Archer Lodge, Johnston County, North Carolina

Archer Lodge is a town of 4,797 people in Johnston County. Unemployment in Johnston County was 3.1% in August 2026, and the county had 7.5% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Johnston County work in schools and health care, then construction.

People 4,797 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Archer Lodge for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 3.1% Johnston County, August 2026; 3.5% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Archer Lodge for the Census survey to measure.
  • 1,925households
  • 37%of adults have a degree
  • 32 mintypical commute
  • 23%work from home

What people in Johnston County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care19%
  • Building trades12%
  • Professional and business services12%
  • Shops (retail)11%
  • Manufacturing10%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment8%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Johnston County had 65,551 jobs in 2025, 7.5% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 53° and 31°; warmest in July, 90° and 70° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 53° 31° F M A M J J 90° 70° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 53° and 31°; warmest in July, 90° and 70° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 53° 31° F M A M J J 90° 70° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 53° and lows near 31°; warmest in July, with highs near 90° and lows near 70°. About 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Clayton 3E weather station, 4 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Johnston County

  1. Johnston County Public SchoolsSchool district4,349FTE
  2. Grifols Therapeutics LLC (clayton)Plasmas manufacturing1,984
  3. AmazonGeneral warehousing and storage1,923
  4. Johnston HealthGeneral hospital1,308FTE
  5. Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals IndustriesPatent medicine preparations manufacturing1,154
  6. Johnston Community CollegeTwo-year college760
  7. Johnston County Sheriff Office, E-911 Center, and Emergency ServicesLaw enforcement statistics centers, government651
  8. Sysco RaleighGeneral line grocery merchant wholesalers450

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 122 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 17,908 people in all across the county; Archer Lodge has none of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24), hospitals from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023) and colleges from IPEDS (NCES, 2023–24); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.

Natural hazards

  1. Winter weatherVery high
  2. Tornadoesrelatively high in parts of Archer LodgeRelatively moderate
  3. LightningRelatively moderate
  4. Heat wavesRelatively moderate
  5. Ice stormsRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Archer Lodge’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.

From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Johnston County.