Roxboro, North Carolina

Roxboro population, 2020 to 2024

Roxboro added 144 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.8%. In the latest year it moved by +56. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 116th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Roxboro is 57% of it.

Roxboro covers 7.41 square miles of land, for 1,119 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Roxboro is less dense than the typical town.

What county Roxboro is in

All of Roxboro's residents live in Person County, which had 40,143 residents in 2024. Roxboro holds 20.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Roxboro

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Roxboro by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 27573. 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 Roxboro is

The Census internal point of Roxboro is at 36.394600, -78.977300. Raleigh, the capital, is 46.5 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oxford, NC (8,972 people), 22.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Durham, NC, 29.1 miles away.

Daylight in Roxboro

At 36.39° N, Roxboro gets about 14 h 39 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 41 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 58 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Roxboro

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Yanceyville, 19.6 miles away, with 1,811 people.