Elizabethtown, North Carolina

Elizabethtown population, 2020 to 2024

Elizabethtown lost 16 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +21.

Elizabethtown covers 5.33 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 617 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Elizabethtown is less dense than the typical town.

What county Elizabethtown is in

All of Elizabethtown's residents live in Bladen County, which had 29,777 residents in 2024. Elizabethtown holds 11.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Elizabethtown

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Elizabethtown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28337. 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 Elizabethtown is

The Census internal point of Elizabethtown is at 34.621500, -78.606300. Raleigh, the capital, is 80.1 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Whiteville, NC (4,688 people), 20.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fayetteville, NC, 38.1 miles away.

Daylight in Elizabethtown

At 34.62° N, Elizabethtown 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 Elizabethtown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Bladenboro, 12.1 miles away, with 1,642 people.