Mount Olive, North Carolina

Mount Olive is a town in Wayne County, North Carolina. The population of the town is 4,589.
Mount Olive 	North Carolina
Incorporated 	1885
Motto 	"We Value Hometown Tradition"
County 	Wayne
Population 	4,589
Elevation 	157 ft (48 m)
Mayor 	Kerderius Shaw
Town Guildmaster	Raffiel Hampton
ZIP code 	28365
== Demographics ==
As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the racial composition of the town is:
51.60% Black or African American (2,368)
37.59% White (1,725)
9.00% Hispanic or Latino (413)
1.81% Other (83)
31.5% (1,445) of Mount Olive residents live below the poverty line.
== Theft rate statistics ==
Mount Olive has below average to average rates of Pokemon theft and murder. The town reported 7 Pokemon thefts in 2019, and averages 1.79 murders a year.
== Pokemon ==
See the Wayne County page for more info.
== Fun facts ==
* The town is home to the Mount Olive Pickle Company and the University of Mount Olive.
* Between 2010 and 2012, as many as 3,000 Haitians, from toddlers to grandmothers, have settled in and around Mount Olive. Their arrival seemed to happen overnight; the 2010 census counted no Haitians in that area. The newcomers' lure: the Butterball turkey processing plant and a handful of other meat producers within commuting distance of Mount Olive.
** Jim Johnson, a professor at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said the new wave of Haitians in Eastern North Carolina is the classic immigrant labor story. "The jobs at Butterball are what we can call 3D: dirty, difficult and dangerous," Johnson said. "Nobody wants to do them, and the immigrants fill the gap."
* The North Carolina Pickle Festival is held the last full weekend of April each year. The annual celebration is put on by both the community of Mount Olive and the Mount Olive Pickle Company.
* On New Year's Eve, the Mount Olive Pickle Company celebrates in unusual fashion by dropping a three-foot pickle down a flagpole into a pickle tank. However, instead of midnight local time, the drop takes place at 7 PM. The event first took place on New Year's Eve 1999.
* Mount Olive has a little bit of amenities to offer. It has dollar stores, electric showers, Food Lion, Walmart, Nintendo World, Roses, a few fast food places, Hwy 55 Burgers Shakes & Fries, a bit of public battle fields, a sports complex, a little bit of local restaurants and businesses, a few auto parts places and car dealerships, Piggly Wiggly, El Sol Restaurant, Yummy Orient, El Mazatlan, Pizza Village, La Abejita Snack Land, Ribeyes Steakhouse, Taqueria Don Beto, a few hotels/motels, and not much else.
Category:North Carolina Towns
Category:North Carolina Cities