The 10 North Carolina Cities With The Most Ashley Madison Accounts


The cities in North Carolina with the most Ashley Madison accounts are Ocracoke and Hatteras for 2025 based on Saturday Night Science.

By: Nick Johnson | About RoadSnacks
Last Updated: October 7, 2025

Do you know a potential cheater in North Carolina? Odds are that if you live in one of the cities below, you do. You probably know someone who created an account on Ashley Madison or had an account set up in their name by a friend or colleague.

Over 32 million accounts were created on Ashley Madison, and the consensus is that almost all of them were created by men. In North Carolina alone, there were over 364,440 accounts created, total. That’s a lot, considering that the entire population of the state is about 6,694,780.

After analyzing 500 cities, we used Saturday Night Science to find the cities with the highest number of per capita Ashley Madison accounts in the Tar Heel State.

Table Of Contents: Top Ten | Methodology | Table | Summary

The 10 Cities In North Carolina With The Most Ashley Madison Accounts

  1. Ocracoke
  2. Hatteras
  3. Highlands
  4. Cherokee
  5. Wanchese
  6. Avon
  7. Dillsboro
  8. Banner Elk
  9. Boone
  10. Lake Junaluska

Most Ashley Madison Accounts Per Capita In North Carolina Map

Many of these are smaller cities in North Carolina with a high percentage of residents with an account on Ashley Madison. Cities with Air Force, Naval, and other military bases typically had a high number of Ashley Madison accounts per capita.

Read on below to see where your town ranked or skip to the end for a detailed chart.

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Methodology: How We Determined The Potential Cheaters In Tar Heel State

Want to know who is attempting to cheat? Go directly to the source of people actively trying to cheat from the Ashley Madison data breach.

We used Saturday Night Science and the Ashley Madison database to count how many accounts were created in each zip code. We are saying “accounts” and not “people” because it is possible to create dummy accounts assigned to a city or to have multiple accounts. However, the number of accounts is a solid proxy for the number of people trying to cheat.

We then matched each zip code to its corresponding city in North Carolina. If a zip code falls into more than one city, the accounts registered in that zip code were applied to each city.

Finally, we used an estimate for the population of the zip codes to identify the number of cheaters per capita.

After identifying the number of cheaters per capita in a city, we ranked each place from highest to lowest. The place with the most cheaters per capita “earned” the title of cheating central of North Carolina.

Ashey Madison Accounts By City In North Carolina

Rank City Population Accounts Accounts Per Capita
1 Ocracoke, NC 861 14 0.016
2 Hatteras, NC 648 29 0.045
3 Highlands, NC 2,868 79 0.028
4 Cherokee, NC 6,304 216 0.034
5 Wanchese, NC 1,385 30 0.022
6 Avon, NC 769 39 0.051
7 Dillsboro, NC 809 10 0.012
8 Banner Elk, NC 4,593 191 0.042
9 Boone, NC 16,910 1,582 0.094
10 Lake Junaluska, NC 1,389 26 0.019
11 Macon, NC 1,400 25 0.018
12 Moravian Falls, NC 2,994 68 0.023
13 Manteo, NC 5,270 178 0.034
14 Kenansville, NC 2,759 62 0.022
15 Whiteville, NC 13,577 533 0.039
16 Castle Hayne, NC 6,262 149 0.024
17 Montreat, NC 481 51 0.106
18 Nags Head, NC 2,496 176 0.071
19 Kitty Hawk, NC 6,888 328 0.048
20 Conover, NC 19,395 568 0.029
21 Blowing Rock, NC 3,192 133 0.042
22 Robbinsville, NC 6,115 119 0.019
23 Morehead City, NC 12,355 613 0.05
24 Rockingham, NC 19,113 669 0.035
25 Wilkesboro, NC 9,480 314 0.033
26 Jefferson, NC 3,656 175 0.048
27 Cullowhee, NC 4,536 275 0.061
28 Engelhard, NC 1,011 22 0.022
29 Pollocksville, NC 1,743 36 0.021
30 Toast, NC 747 37 0.05
31 Havelock, NC 18,917 1,738 0.092
32 Bryson City, NC 6,965 220 0.032
33 Wilmington, NC 138,909 8,409 0.061
34 Roanoke Rapids, NC 20,295 695 0.034
35 Morganton, NC 40,146 1,417 0.035
36 Hendersonville, NC 48,113 1,863 0.039
37 Andrews, NC 3,899 469 0.12
38 Murphy, NC 13,138 541 0.041
39 Greenville, NC 68,583 4,340 0.063
40 Forest City, NC 14,458 2,345 0.162
41 Troy, NC 5,604 143 0.026
42 Ellerbe, NC 3,318 60 0.018
43 Rutherford College, NC 1,005 19 0.019
44 Faith, NC 1,119 1,281 1.145
45 Atlantic, NC 492 34 0.069
46 Saluda, NC 2,433 87 0.036
47 Rutherfordton, NC 14,594 387 0.027
48 Cerro Gordo, NC 1,455 152 0.104
49 Columbus, NC 4,969 145 0.029
50 Webster, NC 665 7 0.011
51 Manns Harbor, NC 785 7 0.009
52 Drexel, NC 1,976 31 0.016
53 Hickory, NC 63,976 3,471 0.054
54 Spring Lake, NC 14,565 1,189 0.082
55 Asheville, NC 92,184 9,601 0.104
56 Spindale, NC 2,671 112 0.042
57 Gloucester, NC 495 14 0.028
58 Waynesville, NC 20,463 740 0.036
59 Goldsboro, NC 53,670 2,545 0.047
60 Wilson, NC 45,390 1,712 0.038
61 Clinton, NC 20,318 624 0.031
62 Newland, NC 5,764 160 0.028
63 Wrightsville Beach, NC 2,209 177 0.08
64 Southport, NC 13,180 456 0.035
65 Orrum, NC 1,586 30 0.019
66 Fair Bluff, NC 1,216 15 0.012
67 Farmville, NC 6,921 147 0.021
68 Henderson, NC 30,279 765 0.025
69 Conetoe, NC 500 4 0.008
70 Sparta, NC 4,859 137 0.028
71 Littleton, NC 5,300 222 0.042
72 West Jefferson, NC 6,351 242 0.038
73 Woodland, NC 1,116 21 0.019
74 East Spencer, NC 740 1,187 1.604
75 Weaverville, NC 16,686 481 0.029
76 Ocean Isle Beach, NC 5,200 231 0.044
77 Bridgeton, NC 889 13 0.015
78 Fletcher, NC 13,344 485 0.036
79 Glen Alpine, NC 1,261 11 0.009
80 Kittrell, NC 3,073 66 0.021
81 Aberdeen, NC 8,383 452 0.054
82 Trinity, NC 12,543 398 0.032
83 Shallotte, NC 8,680 393 0.045
84 Tarboro, NC 16,123 403 0.025
85 Maggie Valley, NC 2,660 107 0.04
86 Micro, NC 613 18 0.029
87 Black Mountain, NC 9,602 269 0.028
88 Williamston, NC 11,259 264 0.023
89 Rocky Mount, NC 55,293 2,080 0.038
90 Swannanoa, NC 7,619 191 0.025
91 New Bern, NC 51,976 2,467 0.047
92 Bayboro, NC 1,543 48 0.031
93 Hamlet, NC 9,267 228 0.025
94 Faison, NC 3,329 294 0.088
95 Saratoga, NC 441 6 0.014
96 Dana, NC 1,861 18 0.01
97 Shelby, NC 38,242 1,523 0.04
98 Sunset Beach, NC 3,548 104 0.029
99 Kinston, NC 31,473 1,111 0.035
100 Lumberton, NC 35,931 1,363 0.038

Summary: The Most Ashley Madison Accounts In North Carolina

If you’re measuring the locations in North Carolina” where there are a high number of Ashley Madison accounts registered per capita, and we can assume that people registering on the site are exploring the idea to cheat, then Ocracoke tops the list.

The cities with the most Ashley Madison accounts per capita are Ocracoke, Hatteras, Highlands, Cherokee, Wanchese, Avon, Dillsboro, Banner Elk, Boone, and Lake Junaluska.

The city least likely to be on Ashley Madison? Henrietta. So there’s still hope out there that some people don’t cheat on their spouse.

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About Nick Johnson

Nick Johnson earned his masters in Business Administration from the Drucker School At Claremont Graduate University. He has written for 39 publications across the country and ran the media relations department at Movoto, a real estate portal based in San Francisco. He has been featured in over 500 publications as an expert in real estate and as an authority on real estate trends.

Nick's the creator of the HomeSnacks YouTube channel that now has over 260,000 subscribers and is an excellent source to learn about different parts of the country.

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