Greensboro, North Carolina

Greensboro population, 2020 to 2024

Greensboro added 11,508 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.9%. In the latest year it moved by +3,492. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 82nd; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Greensboro is 21.1 times that size.

Greensboro covers 134.29 square miles of land and 5.23 of water, for 2,289 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Greensboro is denser than the typical town.

What county Greensboro is in

All of Greensboro's residents live in Guilford County, which had 558,816 residents in 2024. Greensboro holds 55.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Greensboro

13 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Greensboro by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 27214, 27301, 27401, 27403, 27405, 27406, 27407, 27408, 27409, 27410, 27411, 27412, 27455. 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 Greensboro is

The Census internal point of Greensboro is at 36.094900, -79.823600. Raleigh, the capital, is 69.7 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Raleigh, NC (499,825 people), 68.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is High Point, NC, 11.9 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 256 m (840 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Greensboro

At 36.09° N, Greensboro gets about 14 h 37 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 42 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 55 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 Greensboro daylight page.

Places near Greensboro

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Summerfield, 8.2 miles away, with 11,333 people.