{"id":6520,"date":"2023-07-30T10:28:47","date_gmt":"2023-07-30T10:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/?p=6520"},"modified":"2026-08-08T22:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T22:53:16","slug":"cumberland-county-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/cumberland-county-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Cumberland County, North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cumberland County is a county in North Carolina, United States, about 60 miles south of Raleigh<br \/>\nand centred on the city of Fayetteville. It had a population of 334,728 at the 2020 census, an<br \/>\nestimated 338,473 by 2025, and covers 658.48 square miles (1,705 km2) centred near<br \/>\n35\u00b003\u2032N 78\u00b050\u2032W.<\/p>\n<p>Fayetteville is the county seat and the county&#8217;s only city; its postal code is 28301. The<br \/>\ncounty holds 1 city, 8 incorporated towns and 1 census-designated place across the county, plus a<br \/>\nhandful of named unincorporated communities, and it runs on Eastern Time. Its FIPS code is 37051.<\/p>\n<h2>Towns &amp; Villages in Cumberland County<\/h2>\n<p>Cumberland County has 15 named places on record: 1 city, 8 towns, 1 census-designated place,<br \/>\nand 5 unincorporated communities with no local government of their own. CDP stands for census<br \/>\ndesignated place; Unincorp. covers named crossroads and rural communities with no formal boundary.<\/p>\n<div class=\"tv-table-scroll\">\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Place<\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Pop.<\/th>\n<th>ZIP<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Fayetteville<\/td>\n<td>City &middot; seat<\/td>\n<td>208,501<\/td>\n<td>28301&#8211;28314<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Hope Mills<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>17,808<\/td>\n<td>28348<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Spring Lake<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>11,660<\/td>\n<td>28390<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Eastover<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>3,656<\/td>\n<td>28312<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Vander<\/td>\n<td>CDP<\/td>\n<td>1,388<\/td>\n<td>28301<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Stedman<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>1,277<\/td>\n<td>28391<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wade<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>638<\/td>\n<td>28395<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Linden<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>136<\/td>\n<td>28356<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Godwin<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>128<\/td>\n<td>28344<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Falcon<\/td>\n<td>Town<\/td>\n<td>324<\/td>\n<td>28342<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Cumberland<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Chestnut Hills<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dogwood Acres<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Judson<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Montclair<\/td>\n<td>Unincorp.<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<td>&mdash;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Falcon straddles a county line: most of the town sits in Cumberland, but a small portion of its<br \/>\n1.41 square miles crosses into neighboring Sampson County, so its 324 residents are counted under<br \/>\nCumberland&#8217;s 2020 figure even though a slice of the town limits lies outside the county.<br \/>\nVander is a census-designated place rather than an incorporated town &#8212; it has no mayor or<br \/>\ntown government of its own and is administered directly by the county.<\/p>\n<p>Older lists of Cumberland County places circulating online name well over a hundred additional<br \/>\nsubdivisions &#8212; Bataan, Corregidor, Bastogne Gables, Nijmegen and Anzio Acres among them.<br \/>\nThese are residential neighborhoods built for Fort Bragg families and named after World War II<br \/>\nbattles, not separately incorporated or census-recognized places, so they are not listed as<br \/>\ndistinct entries here.<\/p>\n<h2>ZIP Codes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>28301&#8211;28306, 28309, 28311 and 28314 &#8212; Fayetteville&#8217;s civilian ZIP codes<\/li>\n<li>28307 and 28310 &#8212; Fort Bragg<\/li>\n<li>28308 &#8212; Pope Army Airfield<\/li>\n<li>28348 &#8212; Hope Mills<\/li>\n<li>28390 &#8212; Spring Lake<\/li>\n<li>28312 &#8212; Eastover (also serves part of southeast Fayetteville)<\/li>\n<li>28301 &#8212; Vander (shares Fayetteville&#8217;s code, having no ZIP of its own)<\/li>\n<li>28391 &#8212; Stedman<\/li>\n<li>28395 &#8212; Wade<\/li>\n<li>28356 &#8212; Linden<\/li>\n<li>28344 &#8212; Godwin<\/li>\n<li>28342 &#8212; Falcon<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Cumberland, Chestnut Hills, Dogwood Acres, Judson and Montclair have no ZIP code of their own;<br \/>\nmail there is delivered under the nearest incorporated town&#8217;s code.<\/p>\n<h2>Geography<\/h2>\n<p>Cumberland County sits in North Carolina&#8217;s Sandhills-to-coastal-plain transition zone, a<br \/>\nbelt of sandy, gently rolling terrain southeast of the Piedmont. Of its 658.48 square miles, 652.56<br \/>\nare land and 5.92 are water, under 1 percent of the total &#8212; the Cape Fear River is the<br \/>\ncounty&#8217;s dominant waterway, running through Fayetteville on its way to Wilmington, with Little<br \/>\nRiver and Rockfish Creek as its main tributaries. The county is historically divided into 11<br \/>\ntownships &#8212; Beaver Dam, Black River, Carvers Creek, Cedar Creek, Cross Creek, Eastover, Gray&#8217;s<br \/>\nCreek, Manchester, Pearces Mill, Rockfish and Seventy-First &#8212; census-statistical divisions<br \/>\nthat carry no government function today.<\/p>\n<p>Harnett County lies to the north, Sampson County to the east, Bladen County to the south, Robeson<br \/>\nCounty to the southwest, Hoke County to the west, and a short stretch of Moore County touches the<br \/>\nnorthwest corner. <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/harnett-county\/\">Harnett County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/sampson-county\/\">Sampson County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/bladen-county\/\">Bladen County<\/a>, <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/robeson-county\/\">Robeson County<\/a> and <a\nhref=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/hoke-county\/\">Hoke County<\/a> all border Cumberland directly;<br \/>\nMoore County has no live page on this site.<\/p>\n<h2>Demographics<\/h2>\n<p>Cumberland County had a population of 334,728 at the 2020 census, North Carolina&#8217;s<br \/>\nfifth-most populous county, and the latest estimate puts it near 338,473 residents by 2025.<br \/>\nFayetteville and Hope Mills are by far the two largest communities, together holding well over<br \/>\ntwo-thirds of the county&#8217;s population. Median household income runs $58,780 (2023 ACS),<br \/>\nbelow North Carolina&#8217;s statewide figure of $70,804 (2023 ACS). Population density works out to<br \/>\nroughly 513 people per square mile of land, a reflection of Fayetteville&#8217;s size against a<br \/>\nmostly rural remainder.<\/p>\n<h2>Economy &amp; Local Life<\/h2>\n<p>Health care and social assistance employs the most workers in the county, about 20,376 people,<br \/>\nfollowed by retail trade at 16,018 and educational services at 12,594. The largest single employer<br \/>\nby far is the U.S. Department of Defense&#8217;s civilian workforce at Fort Bragg, about 14,036<br \/>\npeople, with the base and neighboring Pope Army Airfield pumping an estimated $4.5 billion a year<br \/>\ninto the regional economy. Cape Fear Valley Health System, based in Fayetteville, employs roughly<br \/>\n7,000, and Cumberland County Public Schools employs about 6,042. Hope Mills centers on its<br \/>\nnamesake lake on Little Rockfish Creek, built around a 19th-century cotton-mill dam. The<br \/>\ncounty&#8217;s biggest annual event is the All American Week celebration at Fort Bragg each May,<br \/>\nwhich draws current and former soldiers from across the country.<\/p>\n<h2>History<\/h2>\n<p>North Carolina&#8217;s colonial assembly formed Cumberland County in 1754, carving it out of<br \/>\nBladen County and naming it for Prince William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland. The county was<br \/>\nbriefly renamed Fayette County in 1784 before the legislature restored the original name.<br \/>\nFayetteville itself was chartered in 1783 and became the first city in the United States named<br \/>\nfor the Marquis de Lafayette, who visited in 1825; the city hosted North Carolina&#8217;s<br \/>\nconstitutional ratification convention in 1789.<\/p>\n<p>The county&#8217;s modern character is tied to its military installations. Fort Bragg, established<br \/>\nduring World War I as Camp Bragg and later expanded into one of the largest US Army bases,<br \/>\nbrought sustained growth to Fayetteville, Spring Lake and the surrounding towns through both<br \/>\nworld wars and the decades since; Spring Lake itself was incorporated in 1951 largely to serve<br \/>\nthe base&#8217;s wartime population growth.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting There<\/h2>\n<p>Interstate 95 crosses the county&#8217;s eastern half, with Interstate 295 forming a bypass loop<br \/>\naround Fayetteville. US 13, US 301 and US 401 also run through the county.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Raleigh &#8212; about 60 miles north<\/li>\n<li>Lumberton &#8212; about 30 miles southwest<\/li>\n<li>Sanford &#8212; about 35 miles northwest<\/li>\n<li>Wilmington &#8212; about 90 miles southeast<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Fayetteville Regional Airport, on the city&#8217;s south side, is the nearest commercial airport,<br \/>\nwith connecting flights to several East Coast hubs. Amtrak&#8217;s Fayetteville station, served by<br \/>\nthe Palmetto and Silver Meteor lines, connects to Raleigh, Richmond, Washington and points south<br \/>\nto Florida.<\/p>\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Where is Cumberland County located?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt sits in North Carolina&#8217;s Sandhills region, about 60 miles south of Raleigh, bordered by<br \/>\nHarnett, Sampson, Bladen, Robeson, Hoke and Moore counties.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the population of Cumberland County?<\/strong><br \/>\n334,728 at the 2020 census, with an estimate near 338,473 by 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How big is Cumberland County?<\/strong><br \/>\n658.48 square miles (1,705 km2), of which 652.56 square miles are land.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the county seat of Cumberland County?<\/strong><br \/>\nFayetteville, chartered in 1783, is the county seat and only city.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How many towns and cities are in Cumberland County?<\/strong><br \/>\nNine incorporated places &#8212; Fayetteville, Hope Mills, Spring Lake, Eastover, Stedman, Wade,<br \/>\nLinden, Godwin and Falcon &#8212; plus the census-designated place Vander and five named<br \/>\nunincorporated communities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What ZIP codes does Cumberland County use?<\/strong><br \/>\n28301 through 28314 for Fayetteville, Fort Bragg and Vander; 28348 for Hope Mills; 28390 for<br \/>\nSpring Lake; and separate codes for Eastover, Stedman, Wade, Linden, Godwin and Falcon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Cumberland County known for?<\/strong><br \/>\nFort Bragg, one of the largest US Army installations, and Fayetteville, the first American city<br \/>\nnamed for the Marquis de Lafayette.<\/p>\n<p>More counties in this state: <a href=\"https:\/\/townsvillages.com\/us\/category\/north-carolina\/\">Towns and villages in North Carolina<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cumberland County is a county in North Carolina, United States, about 60 miles south of Raleigh and centred on the city of Fayetteville. It had a population of 334,728 at the 2020 census, an estimated 338,473 by 2025, and covers 658.48 square miles (1,705 km2) centred near 35\u00b003\u2032N 78\u00b050\u2032W. 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