Wendell Mayor Virginia Gray spoke at an event at the Siemens factory in her town earlier this week and described it as “one of the fastest-growing communities in North Carolina.”
Gray needn’t have waffled on that. Wendell is THE fastest-growing community in North Carolina and has been over the last five years, according to population numbers released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Wendell’s population has doubled since 2020, to an estimated 19,687 last summer, according to the census. The town’s growth rate of 17.3% in the year ending last June 30 was tops in the state…