Goldsboro, North Carolina

Goldsboro population, 2020 to 2024

Goldsboro added 134 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +124. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 125th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Goldsboro is 2.4 times that size.

Goldsboro covers 28.59 square miles of land and 0.15 of water, for 1,211 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Goldsboro is close to the typical town.

What county Goldsboro is in

All of Goldsboro's residents live in Wayne County, which had 120,338 residents in 2024. Goldsboro holds 28.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Goldsboro

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Goldsboro by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 27530, 27531, 27533, 27534. 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 Goldsboro is

The Census internal point of Goldsboro is at 35.378200, -77.971900. Raleigh, the capital, is 46.6 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Wilson, NC (48,579 people), 24.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Raleigh, NC, 49.0 miles away.

Daylight in Goldsboro

At 35.38° N, Goldsboro 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 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Goldsboro

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Walnut Creek, 7.3 miles away, with 1,103 people.