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Elroy, North Carolina.

A community in Wayne County, with no city government of its own. Zillow publishes no home prices for it: see Wayne County’s.

Living in Elroy, Wayne County, North Carolina

Elroy, in Wayne County, had 3,755 people in the 2020 census. Half its households earn more than $63,238 a year and half less, against $59,733 across Wayne County; 14% of its people live below the poverty line. 74% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 26% are rented. Unemployment in Wayne County was 3.9% in August 2026, and the county had 2.0% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Wayne County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.

People 3,755 in the 2020 census
Household income $63,238 the median, give or take $11,247 · Wayne County: $59,733
Unemployment 3.9% Wayne County, August 2026; 4.4% a year before
Homes 74% lived in by their owners; 26% rented
  • 1,328households
  • 16%of adults have a degree
  • 14%below the poverty line
  • 23 mintypical commute
  • 6%work from home

What people in Wayne County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care23%
  • Manufacturing14%
  • Shops (retail)13%
  • Professional and business services9%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment9%
  • Building trades6%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Wayne County had 41,053 jobs in 2025, 2.0% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 54° and 35°; warmest in July, 91° and 72° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 54° 35° F M A M J J 91° 72° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 54° and 35°; warmest in July, 91° and 72° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 54° 35° F M A M J J 91° 72° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 35°; warmest in July, with highs near 91° and lows near 72°. About 2 inches of snow and 52 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

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

Largest workplaces in Wayne County

  1. Wayne County Public SchoolsSchool district2,128FTE
  2. Wayne Memorial HospitalGeneral hospital1,336FTE
  3. County of WayneGeneral public administration1,077
  4. Case Farms Goldsboro Processing PlantChickens, slaughtering and dressing1,060
  5. Cherry HospitalPsychiatric hospital977FTE
  6. Wayne Community CollegeTwo-year college564
  7. Dudley Plywood494
  8. DHHS North CarolinaIntellectual and developmental disability intermediate care facilities457

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 109 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 12,748 people in all across the county; Elroy has one 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. HurricanesRelatively high
  3. LightningRelatively moderate
  4. HailRelatively moderate
  5. TornadoesRelatively moderate
  6. Heat wavesRelatively moderate

FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Elroy’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 Wayne County.