Knightdale, North Carolina

Knightdale population, 2020 to 2024

Knightdale added 2,375 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +12.2%. In the latest year it moved by +1,400. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 24th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Knightdale is 1.5 times that size.

Knightdale covers 9.63 square miles of land, for 2,267 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Knightdale is denser than the typical town.

What county Knightdale is in

All of Knightdale's residents live in Wake County, which had 1,232,444 residents in 2024. Knightdale holds 1.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Knightdale

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Knightdale by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27545. 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 Knightdale is

The Census internal point of Knightdale is at 35.791700, -78.496500. Raleigh, the capital, is 8.0 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Raleigh, NC (499,825 people), 8.6 miles away.

Daylight in Knightdale

At 35.79° N, Knightdale gets about 14 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 44 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Knightdale

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Wendell, 8.1 miles away, with 16,845 people.