Enfield, North Carolina

Enfield population, 2020 to 2024

Enfield lost 63 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.4%. In the latest year it moved by -7.

Enfield covers 1.30 square miles of land, for 1,378 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Enfield is close to the typical town.

What county Enfield is in

All of Enfield's residents live in Halifax County, which had 46,992 residents in 2024. Enfield holds 3.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Enfield

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Enfield by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27823. 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 Enfield is

The Census internal point of Enfield is at 36.179900, -77.669000. Raleigh, the capital, is 60.9 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Red Oak, NC (3,480 people), 15.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Raleigh, NC, 59.4 miles away.

Daylight in Enfield

At 36.18° N, Enfield gets about 14 h 38 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 42 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 56 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Enfield

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Scotland Neck, 14.2 miles away, with 1,592 people.