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Plain View, North Carolina.

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

Living in Plain View, Sampson County, North Carolina

Plain View, in Sampson County, had 1,923 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Sampson County was 3.6% in August 2026, and the county had 1.7% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Sampson County work in schools and health care, then manufacturing.

People 1,923 in the 2020 census
Household income Too few homes in Plain View for the Census survey to measure.
Unemployment 3.6% Sampson County, August 2026; 4.3% a year before
Homes Too few homes in Plain View for the Census survey to measure.
  • 738households
  • 13%of adults have a degree
  • 10%below the poverty line
  • 4%work from home

What people in Sampson County work in

  • Schools, hospitals and social care25%
  • Manufacturing13%
  • Shops (retail)12%
  • Building trades10%
  • Farming, forestry and mining8%
  • Transport, warehouses and utilities6%

Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Sampson County had 17,386 jobs in 2025, 1.7% more 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 32°; warmest in July, 92° and 71° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 54° 32° F M A M J J 92° 71° A S O N D
Average daily high and low for each month: coldest in January, 54° and 32°; warmest in July, 92° and 71° 40° 60° 80° 100° J 54° 32° F M A M J J 92° 71° A S O N D

Coldest in January, with highs near 54° and lows near 32°; warmest in July, with highs near 92° and lows near 71°. About 2 inches of snow and 50 inches of rain and melted snow a year.

Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Dunn Northwest weather station, 9 miles away (NOAA).

Largest workplaces in Sampson County

  1. Smithfield ClintonPork carcasses, half carcasses, and primal and sub-primal cuts produced in slaughtering plants1,289
  2. Sampson County SchoolsSchool district1,038FTE
  3. Prestage FarmsHog and pig farming709
  4. Harnett Health SystemGeneral hospital686FTE
  5. County of SampsonGeneral services departments, government621
  6. Sampson Regional Medical CenterGeneral hospital408FTE
  7. Clinton City SchoolsSchool district387FTE
  8. Sampson Community CollegeTwo-year college356

Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 57 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 7,739 people in all across the county; Plain View 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. Strong windRelatively high
  4. LightningRelatively high
  5. DroughtRelatively moderate
  6. Ice stormsRelatively moderate

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