Surf City, North Carolina

Surf City population, 2020 to 2024

Surf City added 1,068 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +27.4%. In the latest year it moved by +178.

Surf City covers 7.69 square miles of land and 2.28 of water, for 645 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Surf City is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Surf City spans

Surf City crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 4,961 residents as follows; Pender County holds 91.6% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Surf City

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Surf City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28443, 28445. 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 Surf City is

The Census internal point of Surf City is at 34.437300, -77.534900. Raleigh, the capital, is 111.8 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Holly Ridge, NC (5,766 people), 4.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Wilmington, NC, 25.5 miles away.

Daylight in Surf City

At 34.44° N, Surf City gets about 14 h 28 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 51 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 37 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Surf City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Holly Ridge, 4.2 miles away, with 5,766 people.