Wilson, North Carolina

Wilson population, 2020 to 2024

Wilson added 118 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.2%. In the latest year it moved by +60. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 128th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Wilson is 3.3 times that size.

Wilson covers 31.57 square miles of land and 0.87 of water, for 1,539 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Wilson is denser than the typical town.

What county Wilson is in

All of Wilson's residents live in Wilson County, which had 79,958 residents in 2024. Wilson holds 60.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Wilson

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Wilson by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 27893, 27896. 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 Wilson is

The Census internal point of Wilson is at 35.731500, -77.930700. Raleigh, the capital, is 39.9 miles W in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rocky Mount, NC (54,541 people), 17.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Raleigh, NC, 40.4 miles away.

Daylight in Wilson

At 35.73° N, Wilson 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 Wilson

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Elm City, 6.5 miles away, with 1,223 people.