Walkertown, North Carolina

Walkertown population, 2020 to 2024

Walkertown added 321 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.6%. In the latest year it moved by +62. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 66th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Walkertown is 41% of it.

Walkertown covers 6.70 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 900 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Walkertown is less dense than the typical town.

What county Walkertown is in

All of Walkertown's residents live in Forsyth County, which had 398,143 residents in 2024. Walkertown holds 1.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Walkertown

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Walkertown by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27051, 27101, 27105. 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 Walkertown is

The Census internal point of Walkertown is at 36.149700, -80.168900. Raleigh, the capital, is 89.3 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kernersville, NC (28,760 people), 5.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Winston-Salem, NC, 6.1 miles away.

Daylight in Walkertown

At 36.15° N, Walkertown 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 Walkertown

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Kernersville, 5.7 miles away, with 28,760 people.