Bessemer City, North Carolina

Bessemer City population, 2020 to 2024

Bessemer City added 280 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.1%. In the latest year it moved by +89. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 72nd; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Bessemer City is 39% of it.

Bessemer City covers 5.69 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 1,007 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Bessemer City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bessemer City is in

All of Bessemer City's residents live in Gaston County, which had 242,010 residents in 2024. Bessemer City holds 2.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bessemer City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Bessemer City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 28016. 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 Bessemer City is

The Census internal point of Bessemer City is at 35.284300, -81.282900. Raleigh, the capital, is 152.5 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kings Mountain, NC (11,797 people), 5.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Charlotte, NC, 26.0 miles away.

Daylight in Bessemer City

At 35.28° N, Bessemer City 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 46 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bessemer City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Kings Mountain, 5.1 miles away, with 11,797 people.