Whiteville, North Carolina

Whiteville population, 2020 to 2024

Whiteville lost 61 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.3%. In the latest year it moved by -16.

Whiteville covers 5.56 square miles of land, for 843 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Whiteville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Whiteville is in

All of Whiteville's residents live in Columbus County, which had 50,054 residents in 2024. Whiteville holds 9.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Whiteville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Whiteville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 28472. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Whiteville is

The Census internal point of Whiteville is at 34.330500, -78.701400. Raleigh, the capital, is 100.2 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lumberton, NC (18,882 people), 27.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Wilmington, NC, 47.3 miles away.

Daylight in Whiteville

At 34.33° N, Whiteville gets about 14 h 27 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 52 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 36 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Whiteville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Chadbourn, 7.1 miles away, with 1,528 people.