Smithfield, North Carolina

Smithfield population, 2020 to 2024

Smithfield added 1,433 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +12.6%. In the latest year it moved by +319. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 21st; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Smithfield is 88% of it.

Smithfield covers 12.70 square miles of land, for 1,008 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Smithfield is less dense than the typical town.

What county Smithfield is in

All of Smithfield's residents live in Johnston County, which had 249,794 residents in 2024. Smithfield holds 5.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Smithfield

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Smithfield by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27577. 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 Smithfield is

The Census internal point of Smithfield is at 35.523800, -78.352200. Raleigh, the capital, is 23.9 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Clayton, NC (31,732 people), 10.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Raleigh, NC, 26.8 miles away.

Daylight in Smithfield

At 35.52° N, Smithfield gets about 14 h 34 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 45 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Smithfield

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Selma, 3.6 miles away, with 7,228 people.