Cherryville, North Carolina

Cherryville population, 2020 to 2024

Cherryville added 295 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.8%. In the latest year it moved by +92. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 73rd; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Cherryville is 44% of it.

Cherryville covers 5.80 square miles of land, for 1,101 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Cherryville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cherryville is in

All of Cherryville's residents live in Gaston County, which had 242,010 residents in 2024. Cherryville holds 2.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cherryville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cherryville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 28021. 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 Cherryville is

The Census internal point of Cherryville is at 35.384600, -81.378900. Raleigh, the capital, is 156.4 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lincolnton, NC (12,353 people), 10.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Charlotte, NC, 33.2 miles away.

Daylight in Cherryville

At 35.38° N, Cherryville gets about 14 h 33 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 46 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cherryville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Bessemer City, 8.8 miles away, with 5,730 people.