Raeford, North Carolina

Raeford population, 2020 to 2024

Raeford added 22 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +21.

Raeford covers 4.28 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,070 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Raeford is less dense than the typical town.

What county Raeford is in

All of Raeford's residents live in Hoke County, which had 55,382 residents in 2024. Raeford holds 8.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Raeford

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Raeford by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 28376. 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 Raeford is

The Census internal point of Raeford is at 34.981300, -79.229600. Raleigh, the capital, is 64.4 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hope Mills, NC (18,102 people), 15.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fayetteville, NC, 16.1 miles away.

Daylight in Raeford

At 34.98° N, Raeford gets about 14 h 31 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 48 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 43 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Raeford

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Red Springs, 12.4 miles away, with 3,181 people.