Holly Ridge, North Carolina

Holly Ridge population, 2020 to 2024

Holly Ridge added 1,523 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +35.9%. In the latest year it moved by +588. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 5th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Holly Ridge is 40% of it.

Holly Ridge covers 4.23 square miles of land, for 1,363 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Holly Ridge is close to the typical town.

What county Holly Ridge is in

All of Holly Ridge's residents live in Onslow County, which had 212,954 residents in 2024. Holly Ridge holds 2.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Holly Ridge

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Holly Ridge by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28445. 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 Holly Ridge is

The Census internal point of Holly Ridge is at 34.493500, -77.563100. Raleigh, the capital, is 107.7 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Jacksonville, NC (70,840 people), 19.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Wilmington, NC, 26.9 miles away.

Daylight in Holly Ridge

At 34.49° N, Holly Ridge gets about 14 h 28 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 51 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 37 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Holly Ridge

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Surf City, 4.2 miles away, with 4,961 people.