{"id":205,"date":"2019-11-06T18:51:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T18:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/?post_type=county&#038;p=205"},"modified":"2019-11-15T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T16:41:00","slug":"johnston","status":"publish","type":"county","link":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/county\/johnston\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnston County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Johnston County, founded on June 28, 1746, has a population of 196,708 and a total employment of 48,458 (24.6%). The county seat of the primarily rural county is Smithfield, which is about 35 minutes from Raleigh. Johnston County also includes the towns Selma, Benson, Kenly and Four Oaks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The county\u2019s most profitable agricultural product is hogs, and the largest product by acreage is soybeans. The type of livestock produced most by total number is meat-type chickens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The largest manufacturer and third-largest employer is Grifols Therapeutics, which manufactures plasma-derived medicines and employs more than 1,000 people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The county is served by Johnston Community College, one of the 10 community colleges NC State partners with in the Community College Collaboration (C3), a dual-admission program that offers an alternative path to an NC State degree for students from rural and low-income backgrounds. (<a href=\"https:\/\/c3.ncsu.edu\/\">Learn more about the C3 program.)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-205","county","type-county","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/205","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":19,"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1984,"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/205\/revisions\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}