Why invest in North Carolina? Whether you’re a foreign business looking for a new location in North America or expanding your existing operations, our state offers the ingredients for success including:
- A productive, knowledge-based labor force – Educated, skilled people produced by strong schools, who understand quality, innovation and use technology.
- Access to innovation – Research and development that generates new technologies, products and processes.
- Access to major markets – Good roads, rail, airports, ports and high-speed internet connection to move products and services quickly.
- A Competitive operating cost structure - Construction costs, electric rates, overall taxes and cost of living indices, all below the national US average.
To find out all the other reasons to invest here, refer to the Why NC? section of our website.
For Country Snapshots, access the Economic Development Intelligence System.
For North Carolina’s most recent economic forecast, refer to the Belk College of Business’ TIAA-CREF Economic Forecast.