Belmont, North Carolina

Belmont population, 2020 to 2024

Belmont added 879 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.8%. In the latest year it moved by +233. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 64th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Belmont is 1.1 times that size.

Belmont covers 12.22 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 1,313 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Belmont is close to the typical town.

What county Belmont is in

All of Belmont's residents live in Gaston County, which had 242,010 residents in 2024. Belmont holds 6.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Belmont

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Belmont by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 28012. 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 Belmont is

The Census internal point of Belmont is at 35.221300, -81.041100. Raleigh, the capital, is 140.5 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mount Holly, NC (18,723 people), 6.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Charlotte, NC, 11.9 miles away.

Daylight in Belmont

At 35.22° N, Belmont 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 Belmont

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Cramerton, 1.9 miles away, with 5,604 people.