North Carolina · Census place 3758360

Rural Hall, North Carolina

Rural Hall is a town in Forsyth County, North Carolina with an estimated 3,562 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 197th largest of 335 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
3,562
#197 of 335 in North Carolina
Change since 2020
+5.9%
+198 people
Land area
2.9 sq mi
Density
1,250 / sq mi
State median 1,316
Orange pin: Rural Hall. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Raleigh.

Rural Hall population, 2020 to 2024

Rural Hall added 198 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.9%. In the latest year it moved by +40.

3,36420203,41620213,46820223,52220233,5622024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 3,356. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Rural Hall covers 2.85 square miles of land, for 1,250 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Rural Hall is close to the typical town.

What county Rural Hall is in

All of Rural Hall's residents live in Forsyth County, which had 398,143 residents in 2024. Rural Hall holds 0.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rural Hall

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rural Hall by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27045. 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 Rural Hall is

The Census internal point of Rural Hall is at 36.224500, -80.296900. Raleigh, the capital, is 97.6 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is King, NC (7,764 people), 4.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Winston-Salem, NC, 8.6 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
36.224500, -80.296900
DMS
36°13'28.20"N 80°17'48.84"W
UTM
17N 563189.1E 4009078.4N
Geohash
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Plus code
868X6PF3+R6

Daylight in Rural Hall

At 36.22° N, Rural Hall gets about 14 h 38 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 42 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 56 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rural Hall

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Tobaccoville, 3.5 miles away, with 2,740 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Rural Hall, NC?

3,562 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 198 (5.9%) from 3,364 in July 2020.

What county is Rural Hall in?

Forsyth County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Rural Hall?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 27045.

How far is Rural Hall from Raleigh?

97.6 miles (157.1 km) in a straight line, heading ESE from Rural Hall.

What is the nearest larger city to Rural Hall?

King, NC, with 7,764 residents, 4.8 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.