Scotland Neck, North Carolina

Scotland Neck population, 2020 to 2024

Scotland Neck lost 53 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.2%. In the latest year it moved by -5.

Scotland Neck covers 1.19 square miles of land, for 1,338 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Scotland Neck is close to the typical town.

What county Scotland Neck is in

All of Scotland Neck's residents live in Halifax County, which had 46,992 residents in 2024. Scotland Neck holds 3.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Scotland Neck

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Scotland Neck by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27874. 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 Scotland Neck is

The Census internal point of Scotland Neck is at 36.130800, -77.421400. Raleigh, the capital, is 72.3 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Enfield, NC (1,791 people), 14.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Suffolk, VA, 58.7 miles away.

Daylight in Scotland Neck

At 36.13° N, Scotland Neck gets about 14 h 37 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 42 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 55 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Scotland Neck

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Enfield, 14.2 miles away, with 1,791 people.