Carolina Beach, North Carolina

Carolina Beach population, 2020 to 2024

Carolina Beach added 305 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.7%. In the latest year it moved by +21. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 74th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Carolina Beach is 47% of it.

Carolina Beach covers 2.45 square miles of land and 0.29 of water, for 2,802 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Carolina Beach is denser than the typical town.

What county Carolina Beach is in

All of Carolina Beach's residents live in New Hanover County, which had 243,333 residents in 2024. Carolina Beach holds 2.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Carolina Beach

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Carolina Beach by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28428. 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 Carolina Beach is

The Census internal point of Carolina Beach is at 34.041900, -77.899800. Raleigh, the capital, is 127.2 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Wilmington, NC (125,284 people), 11.6 miles away.

Daylight in Carolina Beach

At 34.04° N, Carolina Beach gets about 14 h 26 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 53 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 32 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Carolina Beach

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Kure Beach, 3.0 miles away, with 2,154 people.