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ZIP stands for Zone Improvement Plan. The codes went live on July 1, 1963.The lowest ZIP code is 00501 — the IRS in Holtsville, New York.The highest ZIP code is 99950, in Ketchikan, Alaska.Type 07734 into a calculator and turn it upside down: hELLO. It is Keansburg, New Jersey.12345 belongs to one company: General Electric in Schenectady, New York.The first digit is a region: 0 is New England and New Jersey, 9 is the West Coast, Alaska and Hawaii.Mr. ZIP, the cartoon mailman, was the mascot that sold the idea to America.ZIP+4 arrived in 1983 and can narrow a ZIP down to one side of one block.A ZIP code is a mail route, not a place: plenty of them cross county and even state lines.Play ZIP Hunt: guess the secret ZIP code of the day in six tries.
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ZIP Codes With the Largest Population in North Carolina

What this measures. Population of the Census tabulation area, ACS 5-year estimate. Source: Census American Community Survey, data release 2026-10-12.

# ZIP City County Population
1 27587 Wake Forest Wake 82,886
2 28027 Concord Cabarrus 81,772
3 27610 Raleigh Wake 81,419
4 28269 Charlotte Mecklenburg 79,586
5 28277 Charlotte Mecklenburg 73,882
6 28078 Huntersville Mecklenburg 71,657
7 27519 Cary Wake 69,836
8 28215 Charlotte Mecklenburg 66,674
9 28173 Waxhaw Union 65,274
10 27616 Raleigh Wake 63,520
11 27703 Durham Durham 63,458
12 27526 Fuquay Varina Harnett 61,588
13 27406 Greensboro Guilford 60,651
14 28227 Charlotte Mecklenburg 60,482
15 27713 Durham Durham 59,197
16 27858 Greenville Pitt 58,774
17 28025 Concord Cabarrus 58,334
18 27284 Kernersville Forsyth 58,065
19 28216 Charlotte Mecklenburg 57,507
20 28110 Monroe Union 56,971
21 27834 Greenville Pitt 56,347
22 28314 Fayetteville Cumberland 55,834
23 27529 Garner Wake 55,242
24 28655 Morganton Burke 55,100
25 27410 Greensboro Guilford 54,921
26 27405 Greensboro Guilford 54,303
27 27603 Raleigh Wake 53,972
28 28601 Hickory Catawba 53,329
29 28205 Charlotte Mecklenburg 51,806
30 27407 Greensboro Guilford 51,697
31 27707 Durham Durham 51,274
32 28273 Charlotte Mecklenburg 50,966
33 27107 Winston-Salem Davidson 50,769
34 28262 Charlotte Mecklenburg 50,003
35 27705 Durham Durham 49,923
36 27106 Winston-Salem Forsyth 49,670
37 27360 Thomasville Davidson 49,510
38 28540 Jacksonville Onslow 49,141
39 28117 Mooresville Iredell 48,826
40 27265 High Point Guilford 48,798
41 27502 Apex Wake 48,530
42 27520 Clayton Johnston 48,014
43 27540 Holly Springs Wake 47,771
44 28210 Charlotte Mecklenburg 47,359
45 27516 Chapel Hill Orange 47,358
46 28546 Jacksonville Onslow 47,256
47 27215 Burlington Alamance 47,102
48 27513 Cary Wake 46,979
49 28451 Leland Brunswick 46,933
50 28105 Matthews Mecklenburg 46,817

Showing the top 50 of 853 ZIP codes in North Carolina that have this figure . 27587 ranks 1st at 82,886, against 46,817 in 50th place.

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zipcodes.pro. “ZIP Codes With the Largest Population in North Carolina.” Data release 2026-10-12. Retrieved 2026-10-20. https://zipcodes.pro/rankings/nc/largest-population

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