Mount Olive, North Carolina

Mount Olive population, 2020 to 2024

Mount Olive added 99 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.3%. In the latest year it moved by +22.

Mount Olive covers 2.74 square miles of land, for 1,642 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Mount Olive is denser than the typical town.

The 2 counties Mount Olive spans

Mount Olive crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 4,498 residents as follows; Wayne County holds 99.9% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mount Olive

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mount Olive by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28365. 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 Mount Olive is

The Census internal point of Mount Olive is at 35.199800, -78.066100. Raleigh, the capital, is 51.4 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Goldsboro, NC (34,629 people), 13.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fayetteville, NC, 51.9 miles away.

Daylight in Mount Olive

At 35.20° N, Mount Olive gets about 14 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mount Olive

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Walnut Creek, 13.2 miles away, with 1,103 people.