Cornelius, North Carolina

Cornelius population, 2020 to 2024

Cornelius added 2,843 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +9.0%. In the latest year it moved by +881. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 35th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Cornelius is 2.4 times that size.

Cornelius covers 12.69 square miles of land and 0.46 of water, for 2,708 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Cornelius is denser than the typical town.

What county Cornelius is in

All of Cornelius's residents live in Mecklenburg County, which had 1,206,285 residents in 2024. Cornelius holds 2.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cornelius

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cornelius by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28031. 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 Cornelius is

The Census internal point of Cornelius is at 35.473200, -80.881300. Raleigh, the capital, is 127.7 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Huntersville, NC (67,087 people), 4.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Concord, NC, 14.9 miles away.

Daylight in Cornelius

At 35.47° N, Cornelius 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 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cornelius

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Davidson, 3.4 miles away, with 16,276 people.