Carolina Shores, North Carolina

Carolina Shores population, 2020 to 2024

Carolina Shores added 896 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +19.6%. In the latest year it moved by +196. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 11th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Carolina Shores is 37% of it.

Carolina Shores covers 2.90 square miles of land, for 1,884 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Carolina Shores is denser than the typical town.

What county Carolina Shores is in

All of Carolina Shores's residents live in Brunswick County, which had 167,112 residents in 2024. Carolina Shores 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 Carolina Shores

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Carolina Shores by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28467. 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 Shores is

The Census internal point of Carolina Shores is at 33.907900, -78.573100. Raleigh, the capital, is 129.4 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is North Myrtle Beach, SC (20,798 people), 9.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Wilmington, NC, 44.5 miles away.

Daylight in Carolina Shores

At 33.91° N, Carolina Shores gets about 14 h 25 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 54 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 31 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Carolina Shores

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Calabash, 1.7 miles away, with 2,975 people.