Eastern North Carolina is the preferred base to explore the historic, natural, and recreational resources of the coastal plain. Greenville and Pitt County have emerged as the commercial, cultural, educational, and medical hub of the region. Greenville exhibits a wealth of amenities and a Southern atmosphere that are "more than you expect."

Pitt County has a population of 152,068, and the City of Greenville has a population of 76,058. The cost of living for Greenville is 94.9% as per the 2007 Second Quarter ACCRA Survey. Pitt County has a relatively mild climate and experiences all four seasons each year.

Of the 152,068 people that live in Pitt County, 95,818 people live in the County’s ten municipalities. Those municipalities range from Falkland with 112 people, to the County Seat, Greenville, which contains 76,058 people. For more information on these municipalities, click here.

Greenville is home to Pitt County Memorial Hospital one of four academic medical centers in North Carolina, it is the flagship hospital for University Health Systems of Eastern Carolina and serves as the teaching hospital for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University.

The hospital is a tertiary referral center and provides acute, intermediate, rehabilitation and outpatient health services to more than 1.3 million people in 29 counties. In an average year, about 33,000 inpatients and more than 266,000 outpatients are treated in our facilities. More than 3,000 babies are born here in a typical year. Our clinical staff includes more than 500 physicians and 1,200 nurses.

East Carolina University has served the people of North Carolina and the nation. From modest beginnings as a school for training teachers, ECU has grown to become an emerging national research university with an enrollment of nearly 28,000 students.

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