Eden, North Carolina

Eden population, 2020 to 2024

Eden lost 17 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.1%. In the latest year it moved by +42. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 131st; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Eden is 1.1 times that size.

Eden covers 14.22 square miles of land and 0.16 of water, for 1,083 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Eden is less dense than the typical town.

What county Eden is in

All of Eden's residents live in Rockingham County, which had 93,517 residents in 2024. Eden holds 16.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Eden

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Eden by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 27288. 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 Eden is

The Census internal point of Eden is at 36.503000, -79.740000. Raleigh, the capital, is 79.2 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Danville, VA (41,993 people), 19.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Greensboro, NC, 28.6 miles away.

Daylight in Eden

At 36.50° N, Eden gets about 14 h 39 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 40 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 59 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Eden

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Wentworth, 7.1 miles away, with 2,748 people.