Brevard, North Carolina

Brevard population, 2020 to 2024

Brevard added 154 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.0%. In the latest year it moved by +24. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 114th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Brevard is 55% of it.

Brevard covers 5.37 square miles of land, for 1,485 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Brevard is denser than the typical town.

What county Brevard is in

All of Brevard's residents live in Transylvania County, which had 34,103 residents in 2024. Brevard holds 23.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Brevard

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Brevard by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 28712. 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 Brevard is

The Census internal point of Brevard is at 35.247800, -82.728500. Raleigh, the capital, is 232.9 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hendersonville, NC (15,656 people), 16.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 84.8 miles away.

Daylight in Brevard

At 35.25° N, Brevard 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 Brevard

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Mills River, 12.1 miles away, with 7,426 people.