Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Winston-Salem population, 2020 to 2024

Winston-Salem added 6,538 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.6%. In the latest year it moved by +2,437. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 103rd; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Winston-Salem is 17.6 times that size.

Winston-Salem covers 133.69 square miles of land and 1.21 of water, for 1,913 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Winston-Salem is denser than the typical town.

What county Winston-Salem is in

All of Winston-Salem's residents live in Forsyth County, which had 398,143 residents in 2024. Winston-Salem holds 64.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Winston-Salem

10 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Winston-Salem by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 27040, 27101, 27103, 27104, 27105, 27106, 27107, 27109, 27110, 27127. 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 Winston-Salem is

The Census internal point of Winston-Salem is at 36.102900, -80.260800. Raleigh, the capital, is 93.4 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Greensboro, NC (307,381 people), 24.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is High Point, NC, 16.8 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 251 m (823 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Winston-Salem

At 36.10° N, Winston-Salem 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. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Winston-Salem daylight page.

Places near Winston-Salem

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Walkertown, 6.1 miles away, with 6,027 people.