Kernersville, North Carolina

Kernersville population, 2020 to 2024

Kernersville added 2,181 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.2%. In the latest year it moved by +614. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 49th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Kernersville is 2.0 times that size.

Kernersville covers 19.14 square miles of land and 0.11 of water, for 1,503 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Kernersville is denser than the typical town.

The 2 counties Kernersville spans

Kernersville crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 28,760 residents as follows; Forsyth County holds 98.0% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Kernersville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Kernersville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27284. 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 Kernersville is

The Census internal point of Kernersville is at 36.106200, -80.081900. Raleigh, the capital, is 83.8 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is High Point, NC (118,601 people), 9.4 miles away.

Daylight in Kernersville

At 36.11° N, Kernersville 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.

Places near Kernersville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Walkertown, 5.7 miles away, with 6,027 people.