Pine Knoll Shores, North Carolina

Pine Knoll Shores population, 2020 to 2024

Pine Knoll Shores added 50 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.6%. In the latest year it moved by +7.

Pine Knoll Shores covers 2.21 square miles of land and 4.71 of water, for 649 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Pine Knoll Shores is less dense than the typical town.

What county Pine Knoll Shores is in

All of Pine Knoll Shores's residents live in Carteret County, which had 70,259 residents in 2024. Pine Knoll Shores holds 2.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pine Knoll Shores

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Pine Knoll Shores by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28512. 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 Pine Knoll Shores is

The Census internal point of Pine Knoll Shores is at 34.697200, -76.831900. Raleigh, the capital, is 126.5 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Morehead City, NC (9,963 people), 5.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Wilmington, NC, 68.8 miles away.

Daylight in Pine Knoll Shores

At 34.70° N, Pine Knoll Shores gets about 14 h 29 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 50 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 39 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pine Knoll Shores

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Atlantic Beach, 5.1 miles away, with 1,421 people.