Morrisville, North Carolina

Morrisville population, 2020 to 2024

Morrisville added 2,556 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.5%. In the latest year it moved by +548. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 46th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Morrisville is 2.2 times that size.

Morrisville covers 9.17 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 3,558 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Morrisville is denser than the typical town.

The 2 counties Morrisville spans

Morrisville crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 32,628 residents as follows; Wake County holds 99.2% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Morrisville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Morrisville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27560. 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 Morrisville is

The Census internal point of Morrisville is at 35.836400, -78.839000. Raleigh, the capital, is 11.9 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cary, NC (182,659 people), 3.9 miles away.

Daylight in Morrisville

At 35.84° N, Morrisville gets about 14 h 36 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 44 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 52 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Morrisville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Cary, 3.9 miles away, with 182,659 people.