Asheboro, North Carolina

Asheboro population, 2020 to 2024

Asheboro added 685 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.5%. In the latest year it moved by +174. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 105th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Asheboro is 1.9 times that size.

Asheboro covers 19.53 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 1,430 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Asheboro is close to the typical town.

What county Asheboro is in

All of Asheboro's residents live in Randolph County, which had 148,389 residents in 2024. Asheboro holds 18.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Asheboro

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Asheboro by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 27203, 27205. 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 Asheboro is

The Census internal point of Asheboro is at 35.713800, -79.813300. Raleigh, the capital, is 66.0 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is High Point, NC (118,601 people), 21.6 miles away.

Daylight in Asheboro

At 35.71° N, Asheboro gets about 14 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 44 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Asheboro

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Randleman, 7.1 miles away, with 4,692 people.