Leland, North Carolina Leland, North Carolina Leland is positioned in North Carolina Leland - Leland Location inside the state of North Carolina State North Carolina Leland is a town in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States.
It is part of the Myrtle Beach Metropolitan Statistical Area. A number of movies, such as Maximum Overdrive (1986), Domestic Disturbance (2001), and We're the Millers (2013) have been shot in or around Leland.
Leland was incorporated as a town in 1989. Leland is positioned at 34 14 11 N 78 1 11 W (34.236375, -78.019664) in northern Brunswick County to the west of the Brunswick River and directly west of downtown Wilmington.
Leland surrounds the town of Belville on three sides (to the north, west, and south).
According to the 2010 United States Enumeration Bureau, the town of Leland has a total region of 19.9 square miles (51.5 km2), of which 19.8 square miles (51.2 km2) is territory and 0.077 square miles (0.2 km2), or 0.46%, is water. There were 781 homeholds out of which 30.3% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 52.6% were married couples living together, 12.3% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 29.7% were non-families.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 24.6% under the age of 18, 8.5% from 18 to 24, 31.2% from 25 to 44, 25.1% from 45 to 64, and 10.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $32,574, and the median income for a family was $38,077.
About 15.1% of families and 18.8% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 28.2% of those under age 18 and 11.6% of those age 65 or over.
Leland Fire/Rescue is a non-profit, combination fire department directed autonomously from the Town of Leland.
The department has one chief station on Village Road, a sub-station positioned in the Leland/Belville town areas along NC 133, and a distribution station on Old Lanvale Road.
Brunswick County Emergency Services also provides emergency medical services to Leland and operates a paramedic level ambulance stationed in the Leland Industrial Park.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Leland town, North Carolina".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
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