Get to Know Harnett County

Harnett County is a rural region that’s sandwiched between Wake County and Raleigh to its north and Cumberland County and Fayetteville to its south. Though Harnett County has rapidly increased in population in the past two decades, moving here still feels like living in the country. Here, you’ll find wide-open spaces, small towns, and working farms, with agriculture being the number one industry in the county, with farmers growing cotton, soybeans, and sweet potatoes, as well as raising pigs and chickens. Harnett County’s motto is “Strong Roots, Smart Growth,” referring to its commitment to its agrarian heritage, while welcoming new residents. Raleigh and Fayetteville will be anywhere from a 45-minute to an hour drive from most of Harnett County, but for many, the drive is a fair price to pay in exchange for more affordable housing and a lower cost of living.

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Living in the Research Triangle

The Research Triangle, or just the Triangle, is the three-sided region encompassed by the invisible lines that connect its three anchor cities: Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill. This alliance came about in the late 1950s when academics at the three major research universities in each city — North Carolina State University in Raleigh, Duke in Durham, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill — proposed the creation of a research park to allow the three schools to collaborate. The result, Research Triangle Park, which borders all three cities, quickly became an enormous success. As a result of RTP’s development, the Triangle has become an incredibly vibrant place to live, attracting newcomers with a combination of historic architecture, Southern charm, a delicious food scene, and an atmosphere of college town coolness married to high-tech employment opportunities and investment.