Lake Waccamaw, North Carolina

Lake Waccamaw population, 2020 to 2024

Lake Waccamaw lost 63 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.9%. In the latest year it moved by -4.

Lake Waccamaw covers 2.81 square miles of land, for 437 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Lake Waccamaw is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lake Waccamaw is in

All of Lake Waccamaw's residents live in Columbus County, which had 50,054 residents in 2024. Lake Waccamaw holds 2.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lake Waccamaw

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lake Waccamaw by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28450. 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 Lake Waccamaw is

The Census internal point of Lake Waccamaw is at 34.318200, -78.511200. Raleigh, the capital, is 101.3 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Whiteville, NC (4,688 people), 10.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Wilmington, NC, 36.5 miles away.

Daylight in Lake Waccamaw

At 34.32° N, Lake Waccamaw gets about 14 h 27 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 52 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 35 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lake Waccamaw

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Whiteville, 10.9 miles away, with 4,688 people.