Cape Carteret, North Carolina

Cape Carteret population, 2020 to 2024

Cape Carteret added 58 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.6%. In the latest year it moved by +13.

Cape Carteret covers 2.52 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 908 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Cape Carteret is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cape Carteret is in

All of Cape Carteret's residents live in Carteret County, which had 70,259 residents in 2024. Cape Carteret holds 3.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cape Carteret

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cape Carteret by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28584. 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 Cape Carteret is

The Census internal point of Cape Carteret is at 34.694300, -77.060200. Raleigh, the capital, is 116.5 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Emerald Isle, NC (4,001 people), 2.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Wilmington, NC, 57.8 miles away.

Daylight in Cape Carteret

At 34.69° N, Cape Carteret gets about 14 h 29 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 50 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 39 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cape Carteret

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Cedar Point, 1.3 miles away, with 1,833 people.