China Grove, North Carolina

China Grove population, 2020 to 2024

China Grove added 164 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.7%. In the latest year it moved by +36.

China Grove covers 4.55 square miles of land, for 1,013 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so China Grove is less dense than the typical town.

What county China Grove is in

All of China Grove's residents live in Rowan County, which had 153,384 residents in 2024. China Grove holds 3.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in China Grove

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps China Grove by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28023. 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 China Grove is

The Census internal point of China Grove is at 35.572500, -80.574800. Raleigh, the capital, is 109.6 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kannapolis, NC (60,521 people), 7.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Concord, NC, 12.9 miles away.

Daylight in China Grove

At 35.57° N, China Grove 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 China Grove

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Landis, 2.6 miles away, with 3,838 people.