Albemarle, North Carolina

Albemarle population, 2020 to 2024

Albemarle added 945 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.8%. In the latest year it moved by +371. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 65th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Albemarle is 1.2 times that size.

Albemarle covers 18.00 square miles of land and 0.13 of water, for 964 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Albemarle is less dense than the typical town.

What county Albemarle is in

All of Albemarle's residents live in Stanly County, which had 67,326 residents in 2024. Albemarle holds 25.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Albemarle

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Albemarle by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 28001. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Albemarle is

The Census internal point of Albemarle is at 35.358100, -80.191200. Raleigh, the capital, is 92.0 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Concord, NC (112,395 people), 25.2 miles away.

Daylight in Albemarle

At 35.36° N, Albemarle gets about 14 h 33 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 46 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Albemarle

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Badin, 5.3 miles away, with 1,871 people.