Fayetteville, North Carolina

Fayetteville population, 2020 to 2024

Fayetteville lost 1,398 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.7%. In the latest year it moved by -377. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 134th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Fayetteville is 14.4 times that size.

Fayetteville covers 148.27 square miles of land and 1.82 of water, for 1,413 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Fayetteville is close to the typical town.

What county Fayetteville is in

All of Fayetteville's residents live in Cumberland County, which had 338,430 residents in 2024. Fayetteville holds 61.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fayetteville

11 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Fayetteville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 28301, 28303, 28304, 28305, 28306, 28307, 28308, 28310, 28311, 28314, 28390. 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 Fayetteville is

The Census internal point of Fayetteville is at 35.082800, -78.973500. Raleigh, the capital, is 51.7 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Raleigh, NC (499,825 people), 55.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Cary, NC, 49.0 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 74 m (243 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Fayetteville

At 35.08° N, Fayetteville gets about 14 h 31 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 48 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 44 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Fayetteville daylight page.

Places near Fayetteville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Spring Lake, 7.1 miles away, with 11,530 people.