NC
North Carolina drinking water
1,953 active community water systems serve 9,547,363 people in North Carolina. Browse the largest utilities, see how groundwater and surface water sources are split, and dig into individual system pages for violations and lead service line status.
At a glance
- Community systems
- 1,953
- People served
- 9.5M
- Groundwater systems
- 77%
- 1,510 systems
- Surface water systems
- 23%
- 443 systems
Largest community water systems by population served
- 1. CHARLOTTE WATER
CHARLOTTE · PWSID NC0160010
1.2M served - 2. RALEIGH, CITY OF
RALEIGH · PWSID NC0392010
640k served - 3. WINSTON-SALEM, CITY OF
PFAFFTOWN · PWSID NC0234010
388k served - 4. DURHAM, CITY OF
DURHAM · PWSID NC0332010
322k served - 5. GREENSBORO, CITY OF
GREENSBORO · PWSID NC0241010
320k served - 6. CARY, TOWN OF
CARY · PWSID NC0392020
224k served - 7. FAYETTEVILLE PUBLIC WORKS COMM
FAYETTEVILLE · PWSID NC0326010
216k served - 8. CFPUA-WILMINGTON
WILMINGTON · PWSID NC0465010
199k served - 9. UNION COUNTY WATER SYSTEM
MONROE · PWSID NC0190413
168k served - 10. ASHEVILLE CITY OF
ASHEVILLE · PWSID NC0111010
157k served
Cities with the most served population
Communities with the largest aggregate population across all community water systems based in that city. Click through for the per-city utility list.
- Charlotte · 1.3M
- Raleigh · 647k
- Cary · 440k
- Pfafftown · 388k
- Durham · 329k
- Greensboro · 321k
- Fayetteville · 216k
- Jacksonville · 214k
- Monroe · 211k
- Wilmington · 205k
- Asheville · 172k
- Welcome · 154k
- Bolivia · 142k
- Smithfield · 129k
- Greenville · 128k
- Concord · 122k
- Lillington · 121k
- High Point · 118k
- Goldsboro · 104k
- Gastonia · 99k
- Hickory · 95k
- Lumberton · 93k
- Carrboro · 87k
- Apex · 84k
- Sanford · 83k
- Shelby · 83k
- Hendersonville · 80k
- New Bern · 76k
- Camp Lejeune · 70k
- Fort Bragg · 69k
- Burlington · 64k
- Wilson · 60k
- Raeford · 59k
- Statesville · 59k
- Kannapolis · 58k
- Rocky Mount · 56k
- Salisbury · 54k
- Mooresville · 53k
- Holly Springs · 52k
- Lenoir · 51k
- Denver · 51k
- Leland · 47k
- Washington · 45k
- Kill Devil Hills · 44k
- Carthage · 43k
- Elizabeth City · 43k
- Fuquay-Varina · 43k
- Kinston · 43k
- Mocksville · 38k
- Burgaw · 37k
- Albemarle · 36k
- Rockingham · 35k
- Clayton · 34k
- Boone · 32k
- Asheboro · 31k
- Mebane · 30k
- Clinton · 29k
- Youngsville · 29k
- Pinebluff · 28k
- Newport · 28k
Showing the 60 largest cities by served population. 396 smaller communities also have pages on MyTapWater.us; reach them through the sitemap or via the address lookup.