Wake Forest, North Carolina

Wake Forest population, 2020 to 2024

Wake Forest added 7,041 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +14.2%. In the latest year it moved by +2,333. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 17th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Wake Forest is 3.9 times that size.

Wake Forest covers 19.88 square miles of land and 0.16 of water, for 2,855 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Wake Forest is denser than the typical town.

The 2 counties Wake Forest spans

Wake Forest crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 56,764 residents as follows; Wake County holds 95.3% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wake Forest

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Wake Forest by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27587. 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 Wake Forest is

The Census internal point of Wake Forest is at 35.964400, -78.513300. Raleigh, the capital, is 14.6 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Raleigh, NC (499,825 people), 11.6 miles away.

Daylight in Wake Forest

At 35.96° N, Wake Forest 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 Wake Forest

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Rolesville, 4.4 miles away, with 11,854 people.