Dobson, North Carolina

Dobson population, 2020 to 2024

Dobson lost 1 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.1%. In the latest year it moved by +0.

Dobson covers 2.03 square miles of land, for 724 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Dobson is less dense than the typical town.

What county Dobson is in

All of Dobson's residents live in Surry County, which had 71,547 residents in 2024. Dobson holds 2.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Dobson

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Dobson by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27017. 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 Dobson is

The Census internal point of Dobson is at 36.392600, -80.723700. Raleigh, the capital, is 123.9 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mount Airy, NC (10,583 people), 10.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Winston-Salem, NC, 32.6 miles away.

Daylight in Dobson

At 36.39° N, Dobson gets about 14 h 39 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 41 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 58 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Dobson

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Mount Airy, 10.0 miles away, with 10,583 people.