Pinehurst, North Carolina

Pinehurst population, 2020 to 2024

Pinehurst added 821 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.6%. In the latest year it moved by +25. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 75th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Pinehurst is 1.3 times that size.

Pinehurst covers 16.72 square miles of land and 0.65 of water, for 1,107 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Pinehurst is less dense than the typical town.

What county Pinehurst is in

All of Pinehurst's residents live in Moore County, which had 108,417 residents in 2024. Pinehurst holds 17.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pinehurst

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Pinehurst by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 28374. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Pinehurst is

The Census internal point of Pinehurst is at 35.191100, -79.469800. Raleigh, the capital, is 62.0 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sanford, NC (32,971 people), 26.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fayetteville, NC, 29.0 miles away.

Daylight in Pinehurst

At 35.19° N, Pinehurst 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 Pinehurst

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Southern Pines, 3.8 miles away, with 16,987 people.