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Wilson is a city in and the county seat of Wilson County, North Carolina, United States. It is the 23rd most populous city in North Carolina. Located approximately 40 mile (64 km) east of the capital city of Raleigh, it is served by the interchange of Interstate 95 and U. S. Route 264. Wilson had an estimated population of 49,459 in 2019, according to the U. S. Census Bureau, and is also an anchor city of the Rocky Mount Wilson Roanoke Rapids CSA, with a total population of 297,726 as of 2018. In the early 21st century, Wilson was ranked as 18th in size among North Carolina's 500 plus municipalities. From 1990 to 2010, the city population increased by more than 40 percent, primarily due to construction of new subdivisions that attracted many new residents. This has been accompanied by new retail and shopping construction, primarily in the northwestern parts of the city. Wilson is a diverse community; in 2012, the US Census estimated that 48% of the population identified as African American, and 43% as Whites; the remaining 9% includes Latinos and Asians, such as Vietnamese, Chinese and Indians. The U. S. Census Bureau estimated in 2012 that nearly 5,000 county residents (7.5 percent) were foreign born. Of those, nearly 3,000 people, or 62 percent, had entered the U. S. since 2000. Messrs. Joshua Barnes, John W. Farmer, James D. Barnes, Dylan Dieterle, Jonathan D. Rountree, and Arthur Farmer were named as the first town commissioners. The Gen. Joshua Barnes House, Branch Banking, Broad–Kenan Streets Historic District, Cherry Hotel, Davis Whitehead Harriss House, East Wilson Historic District, Old Wilson Historic District, Joseph John Pender House, Moses Rountree House, Upper Town Creek Rural Historic District, West Nash Street Historic District, Olzie Whitehead Williams House, Wilson Central Business Tobacco Warehouse Historic District, Wilson County Courthouse, and Woodard Family Rural Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 23.4 square miles (61 km2), of which 23.3 square miles (60 km2) is land and 0.2 square miles (1 km2) (0.64%) is water. Wilson is served by the intersection of Interstate 95 and US 264; and it is located approximately 45 minutes by car east of Raleigh, the state capital. It is the northern terminus of Interstate 795, which provides a route to Interstate 40 and the port city of Wilmington, North Carolina.

+Wilson racial composition Race Number Percentage White (non Hispanic) 17,503 36.58% Black or African American (non Hispanic) 22,914 47.89% Native American 114 0.24% Asian 811 1.69% Pacific Islander 10 0.02% Other/Mixed 1,675 3.5% Hispanic or Latino 4,824 10.08%
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 47,851 people, 19,667 households, and 11,529 families residing in the city.

As of the census Now headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Truist Financial is among Wilson County's top employers, with around 2,000 people working in various financial services. Bridgestone Americas operates a plant in Wilson that employs more than 1,800 people who make radial tires for cars and light trucks. Bridgestone recently completed a 6 year, $250 million renovation of the plant, which was retooled to make run flat passenger car tires that are sold in both the US and Japan. In 2014 the plant marked 1 million man hours without a lost time accident. Other large employers include Wilson County Schools; Wilson Medical Center; Smithfield Packing Co., pork products; UTC Aerospace Systems (formerly Kidde Aerospace and Defense before UTC's acquisition), aircraft fire protection systems; Sandoz, generic prescription drugs; Merck Manufacturing Division, pharmaceutical drugs; and Ardagh Group, glass containers.

Wilson is home to the Wilson Tobs of the Coastal Plain League, a collegiate summer baseball league. The Tobs play at Fleming Stadium in Wilson. The Tobs began play for the league's inaugural 1997 season. Wilson Speedway held 12 NASCAR Cup Series races between 1951 and 1960 as it was open at the county fairgrounds between 1934 and 1989.

Wilson is the home of the Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park, an Outsider Art installation. Simpson specialized in large kinetic sculptures called "whirligigs", which Simpson made from salvaged metal. Simpson became nationally known after he was commissioned to create a whirligig for the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. The 55 foot (17 m) high, 45 foot (14 m) wide whirligig called "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" was installed for the museum's opening in November, 1995. Other of Simpson's whirligigs have been exhibited at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City and at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in Williamsburg, Virginia. Whirligig Park opened in Wilson in late 2017.

Wilson has a City Council City Manager form of government. The City Council includes seven members who are elected by single member districts and a mayor who is elected at large. All terms are four years. The City Council makes policy and budget decisions. It appoints a city manager and staff to implement its decisions and operate the city's daily affairs. Elected continuously since 1992, C. Bruce Rose was the longest serving mayor in the city's history. Prior to his election, he served as a city firefighter for 30 years and fire chief for seven years. As of November 5, 2019, Carlton Stevens, JR. was elected as Mayor of Wilson, N. C. Mayor Stevens is a native of Wilson and is also co owner of Stevens Funeral Home, alongside his Mother (Carol).

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Youth Enrichment Program of Wilson, Inc. operates Sallie B. Howard School for the Arts and Education which is named after Sallie Baldwin Howard. Wilson Preparatory Academy also serves Wilson and surrounding counties as a charter school.

The Eastern North Carolina School for the Deaf is operated by the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Office of Education Services.

Wilson's chief source of print journalism is the Wilson Times, established in 1896. Broadcast network television stations (ABC, CBS, NBC, and FOX Affiliates), are based in Raleigh, North Carolina and include Wilson in their market.

The city has built its own Government access television (GATV) municipal cable TV provider known as Greenlight, which provides cable TV, digital phone and internet to its residents. Greenlight was formed in 2008 to provide an independent, locally owned and operated option for television, telephone and Internet broadband connectivity for Wilson residents. Since then, Greenlight has grown to provide services to more than 6,000 residential customers and businesses and the Wilson County School System. In addition, Greenlight provides free wireless Internet access throughout the downtown Wilson area. In 2013 Wilson was the first city in North Carolina to offer gigabit Internet connectivity service to its residents via a fiber optic network. That service allows Internet users to upload or download data at speeds up to one billion bits per second. However, North Carolina state law has prevented the expansion of Wilson's municipal network to nearby communities that have requested connections, and that restriction was upheld in the 2016 circuit court ruling Tennessee v. FCC.

Wilson is served by two airports: Wilson Industrial Airport and Rocky Mount Wilson Airport (RWI), and by the Wilson Amtrak Station. The following highways travel through Wilson: I 95, I 587, I 795, U. S. 301, U. S. Route 264, U. S. 117, N. C. 42, and N. C. 58. Five lane roads include Hines Street, Tarboro Street, and Ward Boulevard. RIDE is the City of Wilson's on demand micro transit service. RIDE replaced the fixed route bus system on September 1, 2020. RIDE is a partnership between the City of Wilson and Via, a leader in micro transit service. https://www. wilsonnc. org/residents/all departments/public works/wilson transit ride wilson industrial air center/ride

Wilson Medical Center is a 330 bed hospital.