Person County offers a strategic location for business and industry, being within an hour’s drive of North Carolina’s two major economic centers, the Research Triangle Park (Durham, Chapel Hill and Raleigh) and the Piedmont Triad (Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point), and a two-hours drive of Richmond, Virginia. 

Person County is served by five primary highways, a freight rail service, and a state-of-the-art municipal airport with a 5,000-foot lighted runway.  RDU international airport is located 45-minutes from Person County, and the deep-water ports of Morehead City and Wilmington are within four-hour drives.