Burnsville, North Carolina

Burnsville population, 2020 to 2024

Burnsville added 10 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.6%. In the latest year it moved by +6.

Burnsville covers 1.60 square miles of land, for 1,016 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Burnsville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Burnsville is in

All of Burnsville's residents live in Yancey County, which had 18,993 residents in 2024. Burnsville holds 8.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Burnsville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Burnsville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28714. 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 Burnsville is

The Census internal point of Burnsville is at 35.916300, -82.297700. Raleigh, the capital, is 205.1 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Spruce Pine, NC (2,192 people), 12.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 92.5 miles away.

Daylight in Burnsville

At 35.92° N, Burnsville gets about 14 h 36 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 43 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Burnsville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Spruce Pine, 12.8 miles away, with 2,192 people.