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Kernersville

A town of 27,830 people in North Carolina
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About Kernersville

Town in North Carolina, United States
1756Established
26,449Population
17.7 sq miArea
1,040 ftElevation

Kernersville is a town in Forsyth County, North Carolina, and the largest suburb of Winston-Salem. The population was 26,481 at the 2020 census, an increase from 23,123 in 2010. While Kernersville is in the Winston-Salem Metropolitan area, the municipal limits of the town is also located inside the overall center of the Piedmont Triad, with the very small outskirts of the town also extending inside Guilford County (Greensboro-High Point Metropolitan Area), in which access to Downtown Kernersville from the east is via I-40 Exit 206 in the Guilford County municipality of Colfax.

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ZIP code27284, 27285
Area code336
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