New Bern, North Carolina
Demographics

New Bern, North Carolina

Section Title: Demographics
Table Section Text: None

Historical population

Census	Pop.	%±

1800	2,467	—

1820	3,663	—

1830	3,796	3.6%

1840	3,690	−2.8%

1850	4,681	26.9%

1860	5,432	16.0%

1870	5,849	7.7%

1880	6,443	10.2%

1890	7,843	21.7%

1900	9,090	15.9%

1910	9,961	9.6%

1920	12,198	22.5%

1930	11,981	−1.8%

1940	11,815	−1.4%

1950	15,812	33.8%

1960	15,717	−0.6%

1970	14,660	−6.7%

1980	14,557	−0.7%

1990	17,363	19.3%

2000	23,128	33.2%

2010	29,524	27.7%

Est. 2017	29,590	0.2%

U.S. Decennial Census

Sentence(s)