North Carolina · Census place 3717520

Dortches, North Carolina

Dortches is a town in Nash County, North Carolina with an estimated 1,083 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 327th largest of 335 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,083
#327 of 335 in North Carolina
Change since 2020
+3.9%
+41 people
Land area
7.9 sq mi
Density
137 / sq mi
State median 1,316
Orange pin: Dortches. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Raleigh.

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Dortches population, 2020 to 2024

Dortches added 41 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.9%. In the latest year it moved by +17.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,038. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Dortches covers 7.93 square miles of land, for 137 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Dortches is less dense than the typical town.

What county Dortches is in

All of Dortches's residents live in Nash County, which had 97,990 residents in 2024. Dortches holds 1.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Dortches

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Dortches by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27804, 27809. 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 Dortches is

The Census internal point of Dortches is at 36.011700, -77.857100. Raleigh, the capital, is 46.6 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rocky Mount, NC (54,541 people), 4.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Raleigh, NC, 45.6 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
36.011700, -77.857100
DMS
36°00'42.12"N 77°51'25.56"W
UTM
18N 242501.2E 3989022.7N
Geohash
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Plus code
8784246V+M5

Daylight in Dortches

At 36.01° N, Dortches gets about 14 h 37 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 43 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 54 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Dortches

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Rocky Mount, 4.0 miles away, with 54,541 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Dortches, NC?

1,083 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 41 (3.9%) from 1,042 in July 2020.

What county is Dortches in?

Nash County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Dortches?

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 27804, 27809.

How far is Dortches from Raleigh?

46.6 miles (75.0 km) in a straight line, heading WSW from Dortches.

What is the nearest larger city to Dortches?

Rocky Mount, NC, with 54,541 residents, 4.0 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.