ZIP codes in Wake County

69 ZIPs touch Wake County, North Carolina. The blue dashed line is the county border; orange ZIPs reach into it.

69

ZIP codes

22

cross the county line

1,484,907

people in these ZIPs

100

counties in NC

Most people

Wake County ZIP list

Questions people actually ask

How many ZIP codes are in Wake County, North Carolina?

69 ZIP codes reach into Wake County, including 28 PO Box or single-address ZIPs placed by the town they serve. 22 of them are only partly in the county and also cover a neighboring county.

Which ZIP code in Wake County has the most people?

27587 (Wake Forest) has about 82,886 residents, the most of any ZIP touching Wake County, in the Census Bureau’s ACS 2020–2024 estimates.

Can a ZIP code be in Wake County and another county?

Yes. ZIP codes follow mail routes, not county lines. Rows marked with a percentage show how much of that ZIP’s land is in Wake County. For one address, pin the exact spot on the ZIP finder to see its county.

Where does this list come from?

ZIP areas and their county overlaps come from the Census Bureau’s 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Area to county relationship file. PO Box ZIPs have no area, so each is placed in the county of the ZIP area nearest the town it serves.

Updated 2026-11-10 · Where the data comes from