Walnut Creek, North Carolina

Walnut Creek population, 2020 to 2024

Walnut Creek added 22 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.0%. In the latest year it moved by +8.

Walnut Creek covers 2.13 square miles of land and 0.31 of water, for 518 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Walnut Creek is less dense than the typical town.

What county Walnut Creek is in

All of Walnut Creek's residents live in Wayne County, which had 120,338 residents in 2024. Walnut Creek holds 0.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Walnut Creek

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Walnut Creek by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 27534. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a village that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Walnut Creek is

The Census internal point of Walnut Creek is at 35.309400, -77.874700. Raleigh, the capital, is 53.9 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is La Grange, NC (2,922 people), 4.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Raleigh, NC, 56.2 miles away.

Daylight in Walnut Creek

At 35.31° N, Walnut Creek gets about 14 h 33 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 46 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 46 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Walnut Creek

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is La Grange, 4.8 miles away, with 2,922 people.