{"id":231,"date":"2019-10-16T21:21:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T21:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/?post_type=county&#038;p=231"},"modified":"2019-11-15T21:52:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T21:52:51","slug":"onslow","status":"publish","type":"county","link":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/county\/onslow\/","title":{"rendered":"Onslow County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Coastal Onslow County, created as a precinct in 1734 and established as a county on March 4, 1739, has a population of 193,893 and a total employment of 49,357 (25.5%). The county seat is Jacksonville, which is about 120 miles from Raleigh and is home to U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, a 246-square-mile military training facility that was built in 1941.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The U.S. Department of Defense and the Marine base are two of the three largest employers in the county.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The county\u2019s most profitable agricultural product is hogs\/poultry, while the largest product by acreage is soybeans. The type of livestock produced most by total number is meat-type chickens\/turkeys. The largest manufacturer is Stanadyne Automotive (the county&#8217;s sixteenth-largest employer), which manufactures fuel pumps and injectors, and employs between 100 and 249 people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The community is served by Coastal Carolina Community College, a two-year school that is part of the 58-campus North Carolina Community College system and a satellite campus of UNC-Wilmington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-231","county","type-county","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/231","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":25,"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2004,"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/county\/231\/revisions\/2004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.ncsu.edu\/counties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}