Ayden, North Carolina

Ayden population, 2020 to 2024

Ayden added 125 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.5%. In the latest year it moved by +19. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 106th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Ayden is 36% of it.

Ayden covers 3.81 square miles of land, for 1,362 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Ayden is close to the typical town.

What county Ayden is in

All of Ayden's residents live in Pitt County, which had 180,783 residents in 2024. Ayden holds 2.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ayden

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ayden by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28513. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Ayden is

The Census internal point of Ayden is at 35.469400, -77.416600. Raleigh, the capital, is 71.9 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Winterville, NC (10,899 people), 4.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Raleigh, NC, 73.1 miles away.

Daylight in Ayden

At 35.47° N, Ayden gets about 14 h 33 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 46 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ayden

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Winterville, 4.2 miles away, with 10,899 people.