Four Oaks, North Carolina

Four Oaks population, 2020 to 2024

Four Oaks added 418 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +18.5%. In the latest year it moved by +148.

Four Oaks covers 2.81 square miles of land, for 954 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Four Oaks is less dense than the typical town.

What county Four Oaks is in

All of Four Oaks's residents live in Johnston County, which had 249,794 residents in 2024. Four Oaks holds 1.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Four Oaks

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Four Oaks by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27524. 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 Four Oaks is

The Census internal point of Four Oaks is at 35.445600, -78.417600. Raleigh, the capital, is 26.2 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Smithfield, NC (12,806 people), 6.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Raleigh, NC, 29.5 miles away.

Daylight in Four Oaks

At 35.45° N, Four Oaks gets about 14 h 33 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 46 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Four Oaks

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Smithfield, 6.5 miles away, with 12,806 people.