North Topsail Beach, North Carolina

North Topsail Beach population, 2020 to 2024

North Topsail Beach added 74 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.3%. In the latest year it moved by +12.

North Topsail Beach covers 6.22 square miles of land and 4.15 of water, for 174 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so North Topsail Beach is less dense than the typical town.

What county North Topsail Beach is in

All of North Topsail Beach's residents live in Onslow County, which had 212,954 residents in 2024. North Topsail Beach holds 0.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in North Topsail Beach

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps North Topsail Beach by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28460. 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 North Topsail Beach is

The Census internal point of North Topsail Beach is at 34.488500, -77.437500. Raleigh, the capital, is 112.1 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Surf City, NC (4,961 people), 6.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Wilmington, NC, 32.1 miles away.

Daylight in North Topsail Beach

At 34.49° N, North Topsail Beach gets about 14 h 28 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 51 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 37 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near North Topsail Beach

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Surf City, 6.6 miles away, with 4,961 people.