Tarboro, North Carolina

Tarboro population, 2020 to 2024

Tarboro added 270 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.5%. In the latest year it moved by +44. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 104th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Tarboro is 75% of it.

Tarboro covers 11.27 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 972 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Tarboro is less dense than the typical town.

What county Tarboro is in

All of Tarboro's residents live in Edgecombe County, which had 49,124 residents in 2024. Tarboro holds 22.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Tarboro

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Tarboro by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27886. 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 Tarboro is

The Census internal point of Tarboro is at 35.905200, -77.557200. Raleigh, the capital, is 61.2 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rocky Mount, NC (54,541 people), 14.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Raleigh, NC, 60.9 miles away.

Daylight in Tarboro

At 35.91° N, Tarboro gets about 14 h 36 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 43 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Tarboro

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Princeville, 2.0 miles away, with 1,286 people.