Dunn, North Carolina

Dunn population, 2020 to 2024

Dunn added 316 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.7%. In the latest year it moved by +141. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 87th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Dunn is 60% of it.

Dunn covers 7.08 square miles of land, for 1,236 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Dunn is close to the typical town.

What county Dunn is in

All of Dunn's residents live in Harnett County, which had 146,096 residents in 2024. Dunn holds 6.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Dunn

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Dunn by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 28334. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Dunn is

The Census internal point of Dunn is at 35.311600, -78.613000. Raleigh, the capital, is 32.4 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Smithfield, NC (12,806 people), 20.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fayetteville, NC, 25.8 miles away.

Daylight in Dunn

At 35.31° N, Dunn 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 46 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Dunn

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Erwin, 3.5 miles away, with 4,865 people.