Boone, North Carolina

Boone population, 2020 to 2024

Boone added 548 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.8%. In the latest year it moved by -270. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 101st; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Boone is 1.4 times that size.

Boone covers 6.39 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 3,142 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Boone is denser than the typical town.

What county Boone is in

All of Boone's residents live in Watauga County, which had 54,997 residents in 2024. Boone holds 36.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Boone

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Boone by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28607. 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 Boone is

The Census internal point of Boone is at 36.213800, -81.665200. Raleigh, the capital, is 171.8 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hickory, NC (45,081 people), 38.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Winston-Salem, NC, 78.7 miles away.

Daylight in Boone

At 36.21° N, Boone gets about 14 h 38 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 42 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 56 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Boone

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Blowing Rock, 5.8 miles away, with 1,336 people.