Black Mountain, North Carolina

Black Mountain population, 2020 to 2024

Black Mountain added 131 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +21. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 119th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Black Mountain is 59% of it.

Black Mountain covers 6.75 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,270 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Black Mountain is close to the typical town.

What county Black Mountain is in

All of Black Mountain's residents live in Buncombe County, which had 279,210 residents in 2024. Black Mountain holds 3.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Black Mountain

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Black Mountain by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28711. 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 Black Mountain is

The Census internal point of Black Mountain is at 35.614700, -82.325500. Raleigh, the capital, is 207.2 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Asheville, NC (94,992 people), 13.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Charlotte, NC, 88.7 miles away.

Daylight in Black Mountain

At 35.61° N, Black Mountain 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 Black Mountain

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Montreat, 2.7 miles away, with 1,044 people.