Lucama, North Carolina

Lucama population, 2020 to 2024

Lucama added 20 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.9%. In the latest year it moved by +12.

Lucama covers 0.61 square miles of land, for 1,738 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Lucama is denser than the typical town.

What county Lucama is in

All of Lucama's residents live in Wilson County, which had 79,958 residents in 2024. Lucama holds 1.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lucama

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lucama by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27851. 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 Lucama is

The Census internal point of Lucama is at 35.644900, -78.007400. Raleigh, the capital, is 36.6 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fremont, NC (1,207 people), 7.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Raleigh, NC, 37.8 miles away.

Daylight in Lucama

At 35.64° N, Lucama 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 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lucama

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Fremont, 7.2 miles away, with 1,207 people.