Emerald Isle, North Carolina

Emerald Isle population, 2020 to 2024

Emerald Isle added 155 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.0%. In the latest year it moved by +29.

Emerald Isle covers 4.92 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 813 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Emerald Isle is less dense than the typical town.

What county Emerald Isle is in

All of Emerald Isle's residents live in Carteret County, which had 70,259 residents in 2024. Emerald Isle holds 5.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Emerald Isle

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Emerald Isle by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28594. 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 Emerald Isle is

The Census internal point of Emerald Isle is at 34.664400, -77.031400. Raleigh, the capital, is 119.1 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Swansboro, NC (4,165 people), 6.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Wilmington, NC, 58.0 miles away.

Daylight in Emerald Isle

At 34.66° N, Emerald Isle 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 Emerald Isle

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Cape Carteret, 2.6 miles away, with 2,288 people.