Stokesdale, North Carolina

Stokesdale population, 2020 to 2024

Stokesdale added 194 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.3%. In the latest year it moved by +58. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 95th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Stokesdale is 42% of it.

Stokesdale covers 19.04 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 321 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Stokesdale is less dense than the typical town.

What county Stokesdale is in

All of Stokesdale's residents live in Guilford County, which had 558,816 residents in 2024. Stokesdale holds 1.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Stokesdale

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Stokesdale by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27284, 27357. 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 Stokesdale is

The Census internal point of Stokesdale is at 36.228100, -79.977400. Raleigh, the capital, is 81.0 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Oak Ridge, NC (7,900 people), 3.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Greensboro, NC, 12.6 miles away.

Daylight in Stokesdale

At 36.23° N, Stokesdale 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 Stokesdale

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Oak Ridge, 3.8 miles away, with 7,900 people.