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Winston-Salem is a city in and the county seat of Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States. [7] At the 2020 census, the population was 249,545, making it the fifth-most populous city in North Carolina and the 91st-most populous city in the United States. [8]
Forsyth County (/ f oʊ r ˈ s aɪ θ / fohr-SYTH) [1] [2] is a county located in the northwest Piedmont of the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was 382,590, [3] making it the fourth-most populous county in North Carolina. Its county seat is Winston-Salem. [4]
The Winston-Salem Police Department (WSPD) is the police department of Winston-Salem inside of Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States. The department consists of 559 sworn officers and 173 non-sworn officers (as of 2017). [2] This Department serves the 5th largest city in the state, and is divided into 3 districts.
The Old Salisbury Road shooting was a mass shooting in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, committed by Michael Charles Hayes (born January 13, 1964) [3] on July 17, 1988. Hayes shot nine people, killing four of them; his subsequent successful use of the insanity defense in courts created a statewide controversy in the early 1990s.
This close group of cities lies in the Piedmont geographical region of the United States and forms the basis of the Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point, NC Combined Statistical Area (CSA). As of 2012, the Piedmont Triad has an estimated population of 1,611,243 making it the 33rd largest combined statistical area in the United States.
Winston-Salem: 695,630 5 94 Durham–Chapel Hill: 608,879 6 115 Wilmington: 467,337 7 131 Asheville: ... List of metropolitan areas of North Carolina.
On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated nine combined statistical areas, 15 metropolitan statistical areas, and 24 micropolitan statistical areas in North Carolina. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC CSA , comprising the state's largest city of Charlotte and its suburbs.
In 2008, there were 415,810 crimes reported in the U.S. state of North Carolina, including 605 murders. [1] In 2014, there were 318,464 crimes reported, including 510 murders. [1] Between 2003 and 2012, there were an average of 15,255 vehicle thefts per year in North Carolina. [2]