wake county population
Wake County, North Carolina 2017 Population Estimate â 1,052,226 The North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management projects the Wake County 2015 population as 1,007,631 people and the 2020 population as 1,119,118. If we assume that the population changes linearly between 2015 and 2020, then the Wake County 2017 population would be 1,052,226. Note: this value is a projection, not a count. The 2010 Decennial Census provides the most recent count of the Wake County population as 900,993 people. And the US Census Bureauâs 2016 Population Estimates Program provides a population estimate for Wake County as 1,046,791 people.