Morehead City, North Carolina

Morehead City population, 2020 to 2024

Morehead City added 380 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.0%. In the latest year it moved by +69. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 81st; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Morehead City is 68% of it.

Morehead City covers 7.41 square miles of land and 3.17 of water, for 1,345 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Morehead City is close to the typical town.

What county Morehead City is in

All of Morehead City's residents live in Carteret County, which had 70,259 residents in 2024. Morehead City holds 14.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Morehead City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Morehead City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28557. 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 Morehead City is

The Census internal point of Morehead City is at 34.727900, -76.739100. Raleigh, the capital, is 129.5 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Havelock, NC (17,407 people), 15.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Wilmington, NC, 74.5 miles away.

Daylight in Morehead City

At 34.73° N, Morehead City gets about 14 h 29 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 50 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 40 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Morehead City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Atlantic Beach, 1.8 miles away, with 1,421 people.