North Carolina · Census place 3711340

Cedar Point, North Carolina

Cedar Point is a town in Carteret County, North Carolina with an estimated 1,833 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 260th largest of 335 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,833
#260 of 335 in North Carolina
Change since 2020
+3.0%
+54 people
Land area
2.2 sq mi
+ 0.07 sq mi water
Density
818 / sq mi
State median 1,316
Orange pin: Cedar Point. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Raleigh.

Cedar Point population, 2020 to 2024

Cedar Point added 54 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.0%. In the latest year it moved by +13.

1,77920201,80320211,81520221,82020231,8332024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,779. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Cedar Point covers 2.24 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 818 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Cedar Point is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cedar Point is in

All of Cedar Point's residents live in Carteret County, which had 70,259 residents in 2024. Cedar Point holds 2.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cedar Point

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cedar Point 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 Cedar Point is

The Census internal point of Cedar Point is at 34.685800, -77.081500. Raleigh, the capital, is 115.9 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cape Carteret, NC (2,288 people), 1.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Wilmington, NC, 56.4 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
34.685800, -77.081500
DMS
34°41'8.88"N 77°04'53.40"W
UTM
18N 309321.6E 3840171.9N
Geohash
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Plus code
8764MWP9+8C

Daylight in Cedar Point

At 34.69° N, Cedar Point 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 Cedar Point

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Cape Carteret, 1.3 miles away, with 2,288 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Cedar Point, NC?

1,833 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 54 (3.0%) from 1,779 in July 2020.

What county is Cedar Point in?

Carteret County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Cedar Point?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 28584.

How far is Cedar Point from Raleigh?

115.9 miles (186.6 km) in a straight line, heading NW from Cedar Point.

What is the nearest larger city to Cedar Point?

Cape Carteret, NC, with 2,288 residents, 1.4 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.