On Nov. 1, the Wake County Board of Commissioners approved the adjustment of residential districts based on 2020 Census data. The districts were last adjusted in 2011, after the 2010 Census. Since that time, Wake County’s population has increased by 25%. If the county didn’t make adjustments to account for the additional 228,000 people who now call Wake County home, residential districts would be unbalanced.

As a result of this process, some voter precincts were also adjusted. You can find your polling place here. 

What criteria was used?

Staff used the following set of criteria, which were established using the North Carolina Legislature’s Joint Redistricting Committee’s proposed criteria, to guide the adjustments.

1. Districts will be adjusted so the population is approximately equal, with no greater than a 5% difference between the largest and the smallest districts.
2. Existing board members will remain in the districts where they were elected.
3. Districts will be a contiguous area, not disjointed.
4. District boundaries will follow existing Wake County Board of Election precincts as much as possible.
5. Districts will not discriminate based on any demographic data.
6. Districts will not be guided by political considerations.
7. Districts will be as compact as possible.
8. Districts may preserve communities of interest, such as neighborhoods, where residents have a common social or cultural connection.

What Changed

Based on the criteria above, this is how the populations in each district changed:

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  Proposed rebalanced district
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