Greenville is the county seat of and the most populous city in Pitt County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 87,521. Greenville's estimated 2025 population is 96,184. It is the principal city of the Greenville, N.C., Metropolitan Statistical Area, and the 12th-most populous city in North Carolina. Greenville is the health, entertainment, and educational hub of North Carolina's Tidewater and Coastal Plain. The city has been experiencing an economic and population boom since the 1990s.
Southeast
Greenville
Pitt County, NC
Population
87,894
Walk Score
88 · Very Walkable
Median rent
$933
Median home value
$192,900
Settled
1771
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On the National Register
Historic districts
- College View Historic District · listed 1992
- Dickinson Avenue Historic District · listed 2007
- Greenville Commercial Historic District · listed 2003
- Greenville Tobacco Warehouse Historic District · listed 1997
- Skinnerville-Greenville Heights Historic District · listed 2005
Notable landmarks
- Ficklen, E. B., House · listed 1984
- Fleming, James L., House · listed 1983
- Greenville, North Carolina Warehouse Historic District (Boundary Increase) · listed 1999
- Greenwreath · listed 1982
- Humber, Robert Lee, House · listed 1981
- Jones-Lee House · listed 1980
- Long, Willian H., House · listed 1982
- Moye, Jesse R., House · listed 1997
- Oakmont · listed 2001
- Pitt County Courthouse · listed 1979
- US Post Office · listed 1986
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