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Granite Quarry, North Carolina.

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

Living in Granite Quarry, Rowan County, North Carolina

Granite Quarry is a town of 2,984 people in Rowan County. Unemployment in Rowan County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.0% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Rowan County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.

People 2,984 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Granite Quarry for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 3.6% Rowan County, August 2026; 4.1% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Granite Quarry for the Census survey to measure.
  • 1,263households
  • 28%of adults have a degree
  • 8%below the poverty line
  • 10%work from home

What people in Rowan County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care22%
  • Manufacturing15%
  • Shops (retail)13%
  • Professional and business services10%
  • Building trades9%
  • Restaurants, hotels and entertainment8%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Rowan County had 51,121 jobs in 2025, 1.0% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

Weather through the year

Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 50° and 29°; warmest in July, 88° and 69° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 50° 29° F M A M J J 88° 69° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 50° and 29°; warmest in July, 88° and 69° 20° 40° 60° 80° J 50° 29° F M A M J J 88° 69° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 50° and lows near 29°; warmest in July, with highs near 88° and lows near 69°. About 2 inches of snow and 44 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Salisbury weather station, 5 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Rowan County

  1. Veterans Health AdministrationFederal government · Department of Veterans Affairs2,470
  2. Rowan-Salisbury SchoolsSchool district2,210FTE
  3. Daimler Truck North America - Cleveland Truck PlantAssembly plants, heavy trucks, and buses on chassis of own manufacture1,988
  4. Food LionBusiness services1,947
  5. Rowan Regional HospitalGeneral hospital1,039FTE
  6. Rowan-Cabarrus Community CollegeTwo-year college993
  7. ADUSA Dist DC 10 SalisburyGeneral warehousing and stora889
  8. ADUSA Services - Salisbury - Harrison RdBusiness services818

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 135 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 20,650 people in all across the county; Granite Quarry has one of its own. Federal offices come from OPM's federal workforce data (2026), school districts 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. Ice stormsRelatively high
  2. Cold wavesRelatively high
  3. TornadoesRelatively high
  4. Inland floodingRelatively moderate
  5. Strong windRelatively moderate
  6. LightningRelatively moderate

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