North Carolina · Census place 3773140
Whispering Pines, North Carolina
Whispering Pines is a village in Moore County, North Carolina with an estimated 5,416 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 138th largest of 335 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.
- Population 2024
- 5,416
- #138 of 335 in North Carolina
- Change since 2020
- +8.3%
- +416 people
- Land area
- 3.8 sq mi
- + 0.63 sq mi water
- Density
- 1,429 / sq mi
- State median 1,316
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Whispering Pines population, 2020 to 2024
Whispering Pines added 416 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.3%. In the latest year it moved by +87. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 47th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Whispering Pines is 37% of it.
Whispering Pines covers 3.79 square miles of land and 0.63 of water, for 1,429 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Whispering Pines is close to the typical town.
What county Whispering Pines is in
All of Whispering Pines's residents live in Moore County, which had 108,417 residents in 2024. Whispering Pines holds 5.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.
ZIP codes in Whispering Pines
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Whispering Pines by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the village's land: 28327. 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 Whispering Pines is
The Census internal point of Whispering Pines is at 35.248200, -79.371900. Raleigh, the capital, is 55.2 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Southern Pines, NC (16,987 people), 4.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Fayetteville, NC, 25.2 miles away.
Internal point
- Decimal
- 35.248200, -79.371900
- DMS
- 35°14'53.52"N 79°22'18.84"W
- UTM
- 17N 648123.5E 3901782.8N
- Geohash
- dnr89beps
- Plus code
- 87726JXH+76
Daylight in Whispering Pines
At 35.25° N, Whispering Pines gets about 14 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.
Places near Whispering Pines
The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Southern Pines, 4.1 miles away, with 16,987 people.
Questions people ask
What is the population of Whispering Pines, NC?
5,416 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 416 (8.3%) from 5,000 in July 2020.
What county is Whispering Pines in?
Moore County. All of its residents live in that county.
What ZIP codes cover Whispering Pines?
1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 28327.
How far is Whispering Pines from Raleigh?
55.2 miles (88.9 km) in a straight line, heading NE from Whispering Pines.
What is the nearest larger city to Whispering Pines?
Southern Pines, NC, with 16,987 residents, 4.0 miles away between internal points.
Sources and data as of
Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.
- 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
- 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
- 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
- 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)
How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.