Wendell
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town in North Carolina, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- North Carolina
- County
- Wake
- Named after
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
- Type
- Council-Manager
- Mayor
- Virginia Gray
- Town manager
- Marvin E. Collins III
- Total
- 6.96 sq mi (18.03 km )
- Land
- 6.95 sq mi (17.99 km )
- Water
- 0.015 sq mi (0.04 km )
- Elevation
- 305 ft (93 m)
- Estimate july 2024
- 16,845
- Density
- 1,409.9/sq mi (544.35/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Fips code
- 37-71860
- Website
- townofwendellnc .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Official name
- Wendell
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Wake County
- Population
- 9793
- Area
- 13.522285
- Elevation
- 97
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Official website
- townofwendell.com
- Households
- 2830
- Dialing code
- 919
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- Commons category
- Wendell, North Carolina
- postal code
- 27591
- water as percent of area
- 0.3211
- per capita income
- 31230
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Encyclopedic overview
Wendell (/wɛnˈdɛl/ wen-DEL) is a town in Wake County, North Carolina, United States. It is a satellite town of Raleigh, the state capital. The population was 9,793 at the 2020 census and estimated at 19,687 as of July 2025.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wendell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.