Asheville, North Carolina

Asheville population, 2020 to 2024

Asheville added 639 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by -243. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 122nd; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Asheville is 6.5 times that size.

Asheville covers 45.48 square miles of land and 0.38 of water, for 2,089 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Asheville is denser than the typical town.

What county Asheville is in

All of Asheville's residents live in Buncombe County, which had 279,210 residents in 2024. Asheville holds 34.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Asheville

5 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Asheville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 28801, 28803, 28804, 28805, 28806. 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 Asheville is

The Census internal point of Asheville is at 35.571000, -82.552700. Raleigh, the capital, is 220.1 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Knoxville, TN (198,722 people), 83.0 miles away.

Daylight in Asheville

At 35.57° N, Asheville gets about 14 h 34 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 45 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Asheville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Biltmore Forest, 2.6 miles away, with 1,462 people.