Southern Shores, North Carolina

Southern Shores population, 2020 to 2024

Southern Shores added 25 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.8%. In the latest year it moved by -16.

Southern Shores covers 3.95 square miles of land and 0.20 of water, for 792 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Southern Shores is less dense than the typical town.

What county Southern Shores is in

All of Southern Shores's residents live in Dare County, which had 38,183 residents in 2024. Southern Shores holds 8.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Southern Shores

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Southern Shores by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27949. 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 Southern Shores is

The Census internal point of Southern Shores is at 36.116700, -75.733000. Raleigh, the capital, is 164.2 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kitty Hawk, NC (3,691 people), 3.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Virginia Beach, VA, 48.7 miles away.

Daylight in Southern Shores

At 36.12° N, Southern Shores 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 Southern Shores

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Kitty Hawk, 3.3 miles away, with 3,691 people.