Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina

Kill Devil Hills population, 2020 to 2024

Kill Devil Hills added 81 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.1%. In the latest year it moved by -48. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 121st; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Kill Devil Hills is 53% of it.

Kill Devil Hills covers 5.61 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 1,380 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Kill Devil Hills is close to the typical town.

What county Kill Devil Hills is in

All of Kill Devil Hills's residents live in Dare County, which had 38,183 residents in 2024. Kill Devil Hills holds 20.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Kill Devil Hills

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Kill Devil Hills by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27948. 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 Kill Devil Hills is

The Census internal point of Kill Devil Hills is at 36.017100, -75.671400. Raleigh, the capital, is 166.9 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Elizabeth City, NC (19,028 people), 37.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Virginia Beach, VA, 56.3 miles away.

Daylight in Kill Devil Hills

At 36.02° N, Kill Devil Hills gets about 14 h 37 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 43 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 54 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Kill Devil Hills

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Kitty Hawk, 4.5 miles away, with 3,691 people.