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About Kernersville
Town in North Carolina, United StatesKernersville is a town in Forsyth County, North Carolina, and the largest suburb of Winston-Salem. The population was 26,481 at the 2020 census, an increase from 23,123 in 2010. While Kernersville is in the Winston-Salem Metropolitan area, the municipal limits of the town is also located inside the overall center of the Piedmont Triad, with the very small outskirts of the town also extending inside Guilford County (Greensboro-High Point Metropolitan Area), in which access to Downtown Kernersville from the east is via I-40 Exit 206 in the Guilford County municipality of Colfax.
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Housing in Kernersville
The typical Kernersville home is worth about $321,000, up 1.1% in a year, close to the North Carolina typical home.
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Safety in Kernersville
Safety Grade C-
Kernersville reports more crime per resident than most U.S. towns we grade: about 85% report less. Within North Carolina, it does better than 39% of towns.
Schools in Kernersville
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The public schools Kernersville’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 62% of North Carolina’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
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