North Carolina's Eastern Region     2000 Urban and Rural Populations               Counties Total Population Urban Rural % Urban       Carteret 59,383 36,801 22,582 62%       Craven 91,436 61,981 29,455 67.8%       Duplin 49,063 6,606 42,457 13.5%       Edgecombe 55,606 30,539 25,067 54.9%       Greene 18,974 18,974 0%       Jones 10,381 10,381 0%       Lenoir 59,648 33,011 26,637 55.3%       Nash 87,420 45,037 42,383 51.5%       Onslow 150,355 107,098 43,257 71.2%       Pamlico 12,934 12,934 0%       Pitt 133,798 87,493 46,305 65.4%       Wayne 113,329 62,510 50,819 55.1%       Wilson 73,814 46,577 27,237 63.1%       Eastern Region 916,141 517,653 398,488 56.5%       North Carolina 8,049,313 4,847,075 3,202,238 60.2%       Note: Urban Population (2002): Residents of urbanized areas and places of 2500 or more inhabitants outside urbanized areas. An urbanized area contains a population concentration of at least 50,000 inhabitants, generally consisting of a central city and the surrounding, closely settled, contiguous territory (suburbs).     Source: NC Office of Budget and Management