Elon, North Carolina

Elon population, 2020 to 2024

Elon added 350 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.2%. In the latest year it moved by +98. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 96th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Elon is 77% of it.

Elon covers 4.27 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 2,642 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Elon is denser than the typical town.

What county Elon is in

All of Elon's residents live in Alamance County, which had 183,040 residents in 2024. Elon holds 6.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Elon

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Elon by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27244. 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 Elon is

The Census internal point of Elon is at 36.102300, -79.508800. Raleigh, the capital, is 53.5 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Burlington, NC (61,365 people), 2.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Greensboro, NC, 17.6 miles away.

Daylight in Elon

At 36.10° N, Elon gets about 14 h 37 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 42 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 55 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Elon

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Gibsonville, 1.9 miles away, with 9,744 people.