Rocky Mount, North Carolina

Rocky Mount population, 2020 to 2024

Rocky Mount added 159 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.3%. In the latest year it moved by +153. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 127th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Rocky Mount is 3.7 times that size.

Rocky Mount covers 45.25 square miles of land and 0.21 of water, for 1,205 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Rocky Mount is close to the typical town.

The 2 counties Rocky Mount spans

Rocky Mount crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 54,541 residents as follows; Nash County holds 71.9% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rocky Mount

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Rocky Mount by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 27801, 27803, 27804. 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 Rocky Mount is

The Census internal point of Rocky Mount is at 35.968500, -77.808300. Raleigh, the capital, is 48.3 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Greenville, NC (95,138 people), 35.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Raleigh, NC, 47.5 miles away.

Daylight in Rocky Mount

At 35.97° N, Rocky Mount gets about 14 h 36 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 43 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rocky Mount

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Dortches, 4.0 miles away, with 1,083 people.