Fletcher, North Carolina

Fletcher population, 2020 to 2024

Fletcher added 276 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.5%. In the latest year it moved by +80. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 91st; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Fletcher is 57% of it.

Fletcher covers 6.33 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 1,303 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Fletcher is close to the typical town.

What county Fletcher is in

All of Fletcher's residents live in Henderson County, which had 120,771 residents in 2024. Fletcher holds 6.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fletcher

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fletcher by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28732. 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 Fletcher is

The Census internal point of Fletcher is at 35.432900, -82.507400. Raleigh, the capital, is 218.6 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hendersonville, NC (15,656 people), 8.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 89.0 miles away.

Daylight in Fletcher

At 35.43° N, Fletcher 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 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fletcher

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Mills River, 5.8 miles away, with 7,426 people.