Glen Alpine, North Carolina

Glen Alpine population, 2020 to 2024

Glen Alpine added 6 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +5.

Glen Alpine covers 2.15 square miles of land, for 713 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Glen Alpine is less dense than the typical town.

What county Glen Alpine is in

All of Glen Alpine's residents live in Burke County, which had 88,545 residents in 2024. Glen Alpine holds 1.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Glen Alpine

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Glen Alpine by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28628, 28655. 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 Glen Alpine is

The Census internal point of Glen Alpine is at 35.730700, -81.782600. Raleigh, the capital, is 176.3 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Morganton, NC (17,825 people), 4.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Charlotte, NC, 64.6 miles away.

Daylight in Glen Alpine

At 35.73° N, Glen Alpine gets about 14 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 44 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Glen Alpine

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Morganton, 4.7 miles away, with 17,825 people.