Kenly, North Carolina

Kenly population, 2020 to 2024

Kenly added 184 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +12.2%. In the latest year it moved by +42.

Kenly covers 1.88 square miles of land, for 897 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Kenly is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Kenly spans

Kenly crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 1,687 residents as follows; Johnston County holds 87.7% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Kenly

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Kenly by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27542. 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 Kenly is

The Census internal point of Kenly is at 35.600800, -78.127900. Raleigh, the capital, is 31.2 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Pine Level, NC (2,347 people), 9.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Raleigh, NC, 32.9 miles away.

Daylight in Kenly

At 35.60° N, Kenly 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 Kenly

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Lucama, 7.4 miles away, with 1,060 people.