Wendell, North Carolina

Wendell population, 2020 to 2024

Wendell added 6,854 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +68.6%. In the latest year it moved by +2,362. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 1st; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Wendell is 1.2 times that size.

Wendell covers 9.42 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,788 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Wendell is denser than the typical town.

What county Wendell is in

All of Wendell's residents live in Wake County, which had 1,232,444 residents in 2024. Wendell holds 1.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wendell

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Wendell by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27591. 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 Wendell is

The Census internal point of Wendell is at 35.793600, -78.351100. Raleigh, the capital, is 16.2 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Knightdale, NC (21,829 people), 8.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Raleigh, NC, 16.5 miles away.

Daylight in Wendell

At 35.79° N, Wendell gets about 14 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 44 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Wendell

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Zebulon, 3.2 miles away, with 10,505 people.