Whitakers is a town in Edgecombe and Nash Counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is divided between the two counties by railroad tracks and is the northernmost town in the two counties. It is part of the Rocky Mount, North Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, Whitakers had a population of 627.
History
The Porter Houses and Armstrong Kitchen was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of .81 square miles (2.1 km), all land.
Demographics
2020 census
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:right"
|+Whitakers racial composition
!scope="col"| Race
!scope="col"| Number
!scope="col"| Percentage
|-
!scope="row"| White (non-Hispanic)
| 161
| 25.68%
|-
!scope="row"| Black or African American (non-Hispanic)
| 433
| 69.06%
|-
!scope="row"| Native American
| 1
| 0.16%
|-
!scope="row"| Asian
| 1
| 0.16%
|-
!scope="row"| Other/Mixed
| 19
| 3.03%
|-
!scope="row"| Hispanic or Latino
| 12
| 1.91%
|}
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 627 people, 304 households, and 173 families residing in the town.
2000 census
As of the census