Oak Island, North Carolina

Oak Island population, 2020 to 2024

Oak Island added 935 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +11.1%. In the latest year it moved by -78. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 27th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Oak Island is 64% of it.

Oak Island covers 19.27 square miles of land and 1.36 of water, for 484 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Oak Island is less dense than the typical town.

What county Oak Island is in

All of Oak Island's residents live in Brunswick County, which had 167,112 residents in 2024. Oak Island holds 5.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Oak Island

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Oak Island by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28422, 28465. 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 Oak Island is

The Census internal point of Oak Island is at 33.913300, -78.119800. Raleigh, the capital, is 132.3 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Leland, NC (34,451 people), 21.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Wilmington, NC, 24.4 miles away.

Daylight in Oak Island

At 33.91° N, Oak Island gets about 14 h 25 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 54 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 31 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Oak Island

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is St. James, 2.4 miles away, with 7,315 people.