Restoring vitality to North Carolina's small towns
The Small Towns Initiative is designed to help North Carolina's small towns -- those with fewer than 10,000 residents -- achieve greater prosperity and improved quality of life. It gives special emphasis to towns experiencing hardships posed by business closings and layoffs, devastation from natural disasters or persistent poverty.
About the initiative
Read about this broad-based initiative and the conditions that led to it.
The state of small towns
Learn more about small towns through statistics and the views of small-town leaders.
Resources for small towns
Locate useful information, technical assistance and financial aid geared to the needs of small towns.
N.C. STEP
As part of the Small Towns Initiative, the N.C. Small Towns Economic Prosperity Demonstration Program targets assistance to 20 sites representing 33 distressed communities.
Small towns data profiles
The Small Towns Data Profiles provide information on North Carolina municipalities. Each profile contains demographic information and indicators of economic and social well-being.
