Elm City, North Carolina

Elm City population, 2020 to 2024

Elm City added 6 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +8.

Elm City covers 2.15 square miles of land, for 569 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Elm City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Elm City is in

All of Elm City's residents live in Wilson County, which had 79,958 residents in 2024. Elm City holds 1.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Elm City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Elm City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27822. 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 Elm City is

The Census internal point of Elm City is at 35.804000, -77.856700. Raleigh, the capital, is 43.9 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sharpsburg, NC (1,774 people), 4.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Raleigh, NC, 44.0 miles away.

Daylight in Elm City

At 35.80° N, Elm City gets about 14 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 44 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 52 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Elm City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Sharpsburg, 4.6 miles away, with 1,774 people.