Dallas, North Carolina

Dallas population, 2020 to 2024

Dallas added 321 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.4%. In the latest year it moved by +103. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 68th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Dallas is 43% of it.

Dallas covers 3.07 square miles of land, for 2,042 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Dallas is denser than the typical town.

What county Dallas is in

All of Dallas's residents live in Gaston County, which had 242,010 residents in 2024. Dallas 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 Dallas

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Dallas by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28034. 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 Dallas is

The Census internal point of Dallas is at 35.317900, -81.183200. Raleigh, the capital, is 146.5 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Gastonia, NC (85,535 people), 4.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Charlotte, NC, 21.3 miles away.

Daylight in Dallas

At 35.32° N, Dallas 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 46 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Dallas

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Ranlo, 3.6 miles away, with 4,756 people.