Hope Mills, North Carolina

Hope Mills population, 2020 to 2024

Hope Mills added 281 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +42. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 118th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Hope Mills is 1.2 times that size.

Hope Mills covers 9.04 square miles of land and 0.16 of water, for 2,002 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Hope Mills is denser than the typical town.

What county Hope Mills is in

All of Hope Mills's residents live in Cumberland County, which had 338,430 residents in 2024. Hope Mills holds 5.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hope Mills

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Hope Mills by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28306, 28348. 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 Hope Mills is

The Census internal point of Hope Mills is at 34.969200, -78.959900. Raleigh, the capital, is 58.9 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fayetteville, NC (209,496 people), 7.9 miles away.

Daylight in Hope Mills

At 34.97° N, Hope Mills gets about 14 h 31 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 48 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 42 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hope Mills

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Fayetteville, 7.9 miles away, with 209,496 people.