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North Carolina Public Records Search
North Carolina public records are kept by state agencies, the courts and county offices. RecordsDirectory.com lists the official statewide record offices for North Carolina and has a page for each of its 100 counties (combined 2024 population estimate: 11,046,024).
🏛 North Carolina Record Offices at a Glance
| State vital records office | North Carolina Vital Records (NCDHHS) Source: vitalrecords.nc.gov ↗ |
| Sex offender registry | North Carolina Sex Offender Registry (State Bureau of Investigation) Source: sexoffender.ncsbi.gov ↗ |
| Courts | North Carolina Judicial Branch |
| Land records | In North Carolina, deeds, mortgages and other land records are recorded by the county Register of Deeds. |
| Divorce | Divorce cases in North Carolina are heard by the District Court in each county. |
| Probate | Wills and estates in North Carolina are handled by the Clerk of Superior Court in each county. |
| Counties | Most North Carolina court, land and probate records are kept at the county level, so RecordsDirectory.com lists North Carolina records county by county. |
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Wake County
Pop. 1,232,444
Mecklenburg County
Pop. 1,206,285
Guilford County
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Forsyth County
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Durham County
Pop. 343,628
Cumberland County
Pop. 338,430
Buncombe County
Pop. 279,210
Union County
Pop. 263,386
Johnston County
Pop. 249,794
Cabarrus County
Pop. 244,925
New Hanover County
Pop. 243,333
Gaston County
Pop. 242,010
All 100 North Carolina Counties
Alamance County
Pop. 183,040
Alexander County
Pop. 36,693
Alleghany County
Pop. 11,379
Anson County
Pop. 22,432
Ashe County
Pop. 27,266
Avery County
Pop. 17,811
Beaufort County
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Bertie County
Pop. 16,939
Bladen County
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Brunswick County
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Buncombe County
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Burke County
Pop. 88,545
Cabarrus County
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Caldwell County
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Camden County
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Carteret County
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Caswell County
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Catawba County
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Chatham County
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Cherokee County
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Chowan County
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Clay County
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Cleveland County
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Columbus County
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Craven County
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Cumberland County
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Currituck County
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Dare County
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Davidson County
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Davie County
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Duplin County
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Durham County
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Edgecombe County
Pop. 49,124
Forsyth County
Pop. 398,143
Franklin County
Pop. 79,771
Gaston County
Pop. 242,010
Gates County
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Graham County
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Granville County
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Greene County
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Guilford County
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Halifax County
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Harnett County
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Haywood County
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Henderson County
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Hertford County
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Hoke County
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Hyde County
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Iredell County
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Jackson County
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Johnston County
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Jones County
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Lee County
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Lenoir County
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Lincoln County
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Macon County
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Madison County
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Martin County
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McDowell County
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Mecklenburg County
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Mitchell County
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Montgomery County
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Moore County
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Nash County
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New Hanover County
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Northampton County
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Onslow County
Pop. 212,954
Orange County
Pop. 152,877
Pamlico County
Pop. 12,550
Pasquotank County
Pop. 41,418
Pender County
Pop. 70,077
Perquimans County
Pop. 13,460
Person County
Pop. 40,143
Pitt County
Pop. 180,783
Polk County
Pop. 20,320
Randolph County
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Richmond County
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Robeson County
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Rockingham County
Pop. 93,517
Rowan County
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Rutherford County
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Sampson County
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Scotland County
Pop. 33,898
Stanly County
Pop. 67,326
Stokes County
Pop. 45,857
Surry County
Pop. 71,547
Swain County
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Transylvania County
Pop. 34,103
Tyrrell County
Pop. 3,517
Union County
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Vance County
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Wake County
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Warren County
Pop. 19,081
Washington County
Pop. 10,654
Watauga County
Pop. 54,997
Wayne County
Pop. 120,338
Wilkes County
Pop. 66,186
Wilson County
Pop. 79,958
Yadkin County
Pop. 37,995
Yancey County
Pop. 18,993