{"id":187,"date":"2019-11-13T19:31:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T19:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/?post_type=county&#038;p=187"},"modified":"2019-11-13T19:31:52","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T19:31:52","slug":"forsyth","status":"publish","type":"county","link":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/county\/forsyth\/","title":{"rendered":"Forsyth County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forsyth County, established in the North Carolina&#8217;s Piedmont on Jan. 16, 1849, has a population of 376,320 and a total employment of 186,785 (49.6%). It is the state&#8217;s fourth most populous county and part of the Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point Combined Metropolitan Statistical Area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Winston-Salem, about 100 miles east of Raleigh, serves as the county seat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The county\u2019s most profitable agricultural product is nursery\/floriculture, while the largest product by acreage is forage land for grain production\/soybeans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> By total number, the largest livestock produced is cattle and calves. The largest manufacturer is Hanesbrands (seventh-largest employer), which manufactures products for its Champion-brand line of clothing, and employs over 1,000 people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The county is home to multiple higher education institutions, including two constituent members with NC State of the 17-institution University of North Carolina system: Winston-Salem State University and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, a residential high school program for arts-focused students from around the state.<\/p>\n<p>Wake Forest University, located in Wake County until 1956, now calls Winston-Salem home, along with Salem College, the oldest continuously operating educational institution for women in America, and Piedmont International University.<\/p>\n<p>Forsyth Technical Community College is a member of the 58-school North Carolina Community College System, which has 12 locations in Forsyth and Stokes counties and serves some 35,000 degree and continuing education students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-187","county","type-county","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/county"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1945,"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/187\/revisions\/1945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}