Greenville, North Carolina

Greenville population, 2020 to 2024

Greenville added 4,185 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.6%. In the latest year it moved by +1,345. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 76th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Greenville is 6.5 times that size.

Greenville covers 38.34 square miles of land and 0.76 of water, for 2,481 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Greenville is denser than the typical town.

What county Greenville is in

All of Greenville's residents live in Pitt County, which had 180,783 residents in 2024. Greenville holds 52.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Greenville

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Greenville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 27834, 27858, 28590. 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 Greenville is

The Census internal point of Greenville is at 35.596400, -77.375300. Raleigh, the capital, is 72.0 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Raleigh, NC (499,825 people), 72.8 miles away.

Daylight in Greenville

At 35.60° N, Greenville gets about 14 h 34 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 45 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Greenville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Winterville, 4.9 miles away, with 10,899 people.