North Carolina · United States
Kinston population
21,337people · latest figure
Kinston has a population of 21,337, making it the 2102nd largest place we list in United States. It is in North Carolina.
Kinston holds under a tenth of one per cent of United States's 349,035,494 people. New York City, the largest place we list there, is 413 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 22,475, a fall of 5%.
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.
Kinston is in North Carolina, which has 590 recorded places.
Nearby in size
| Place | Region | Population |
|---|---|---|
| Arnold | Missouri | 21,357 |
| East Moline | Illinois | 21,350 |
| West Pensacola | Florida | 21,339 |
| Shelbyville | Tennessee | 21,317 |
| Marquette | Michigan | 21,297 |
| Fairfield Heights | Indiana | 21,285 |
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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.