North Carolina · Census place 3701380

Andrews, North Carolina

Andrews is a town in Cherokee County, North Carolina with an estimated 1,762 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 268th largest of 335 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,762
#268 of 335 in North Carolina
Change since 2020
+5.6%
+93 people
Land area
1.6 sq mi
Density
1,074 / sq mi
State median 1,316
Orange pin: Andrews. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Raleigh.

Andrews population, 2020 to 2024

Andrews added 93 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.6%. In the latest year it moved by +25.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,664. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Andrews covers 1.64 square miles of land, for 1,074 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Andrews is less dense than the typical town.

What county Andrews is in

All of Andrews's residents live in Cherokee County, which had 30,373 residents in 2024. Andrews holds 5.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Andrews

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Andrews by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28901. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Andrews is

The Census internal point of Andrews is at 35.199000, -83.825800. Raleigh, the capital, is 294.5 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Franklin, NC (4,362 people), 25.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 53.7 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
35.199000, -83.825800
DMS
35°11'56.40"N 83°49'32.88"W
UTM
17N 242731.6E 3898770.4N
Geohash
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Plus code
867R55XF+JM

Daylight in Andrews

At 35.20° N, Andrews gets about 14 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Andrews

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Murphy, 13.4 miles away, with 1,693 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Andrews, NC?

1,762 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 93 (5.6%) from 1,669 in July 2020.

What county is Andrews in?

Cherokee County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Andrews?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 28901.

How far is Andrews from Raleigh?

294.5 miles (474.0 km) in a straight line, heading E from Andrews.

What is the nearest larger city to Andrews?

Franklin, NC, with 4,362 residents, 25.2 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.