Northwest, North Carolina

Northwest population, 2020 to 2024

Northwest added 338 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +48.4%. In the latest year it moved by +44.

Northwest covers 7.17 square miles of land, for 145 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Northwest is less dense than the typical town.

What county Northwest is in

All of Northwest's residents live in Brunswick County, which had 167,112 residents in 2024. Northwest holds 0.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Northwest

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Northwest by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 28451, 28456. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Northwest is

The Census internal point of Northwest is at 34.316000, -78.144800. Raleigh, the capital, is 104.9 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Navassa, NC (1,776 people), 6.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Wilmington, NC, 16.5 miles away.

Daylight in Northwest

At 34.32° N, Northwest gets about 14 h 27 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 52 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 35 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Northwest

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Navassa, 6.5 miles away, with 1,776 people.