Conover, North Carolina

Conover population, 2020 to 2024

Conover added 318 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.8%. In the latest year it moved by +108. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 85th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Conover is 60% of it.

Conover covers 11.46 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 764 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Conover is less dense than the typical town.

What county Conover is in

All of Conover's residents live in Catawba County, which had 167,054 residents in 2024. Conover holds 5.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Conover

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Conover by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 28613. 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 Conover is

The Census internal point of Conover is at 35.715200, -81.216800. Raleigh, the capital, is 144.6 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Newton, NC (13,571 people), 3.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Concord, NC, 39.6 miles away.

Daylight in Conover

At 35.72° N, Conover gets about 14 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 44 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Conover

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Claremont, 3.5 miles away, with 1,753 people.