Wilkesboro, North Carolina

Wilkesboro population, 2020 to 2024

Wilkesboro lost 54 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.5%. In the latest year it moved by +5.

Wilkesboro covers 6.59 square miles of land, for 549 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Wilkesboro is less dense than the typical town.

What county Wilkesboro is in

All of Wilkesboro's residents live in Wilkes County, which had 66,186 residents in 2024. Wilkesboro holds 5.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wilkesboro

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Wilkesboro by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28697. 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 Wilkesboro is

The Census internal point of Wilkesboro is at 36.142400, -81.176900. Raleigh, the capital, is 144.1 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is North Wilkesboro, NC (4,412 people), 3.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Winston-Salem, NC, 51.2 miles away.

Daylight in Wilkesboro

At 36.14° N, Wilkesboro 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 Wilkesboro

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is North Wilkesboro, 3.0 miles away, with 4,412 people.