Manteo, North Carolina

Manteo population, 2020 to 2024

Manteo lost 2 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.1%. In the latest year it moved by -18.

Manteo covers 1.88 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 848 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Manteo is less dense than the typical town.

What county Manteo is in

All of Manteo's residents live in Dare County, which had 38,183 residents in 2024. Manteo holds 4.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Manteo

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Manteo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27954. 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 Manteo is

The Census internal point of Manteo is at 35.898600, -75.651300. Raleigh, the capital, is 167.5 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Nags Head, NC (3,106 people), 3.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Virginia Beach, VA, 64.4 miles away.

Daylight in Manteo

At 35.90° N, Manteo gets about 14 h 36 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 43 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Manteo

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Nags Head, 3.7 miles away, with 3,106 people.