Walkertown is a town in Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States and a rural area outside of Winston-Salem.

[5] is located in eastern Forsyth County and is bordered to the southwest by the city of Winston-Salem.

The future Interstate 74 currently designated as NC Highway 74, bypasses most of the town to the south while following parallel with NC 66; both highways going southeast connect the town to Kernersville, northwest to Rural Hall.

[6] As of the 2020 United States census, there were 5,692 people, 2,052 households, and 1,486 families residing in the town.

[citation needed] Walkertown was named for Robert Walker Esq.

who was living at the site by 1771 after relocating from the original county seat of Richmond which was destroyed by a cyclone.

Crews House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.