Rocky Mount, July 28—The population of Rocky Mount and its suburbs is now 22,640, Secretary George Williams of the Chamber of Commerce has announced. The announcement was made following the compilation of statistics for the new city directory.
Rocky Mount, one of the growing cities of eastern North Carolina, is located in two counties—Nash and Edgecombe. A few years ago it had only a few thousand. Then it grew officially to 6,000, later to 4,000 and now its estimated population is nearing the 25,000 mark.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, July 29, 1925. According to Wikipedia, The city’s population was 54,341 as of 2020 and the Rocky Mount metropolitan area was 145,383 in 2023.
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