Granite Falls, North Carolina

Granite Falls population, 2020 to 2024

Granite Falls added 7 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.1%. In the latest year it moved by +8.

Granite Falls covers 4.94 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 1,000 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Granite Falls is less dense than the typical town.

What county Granite Falls is in

All of Granite Falls's residents live in Caldwell County, which had 80,739 residents in 2024. Granite Falls holds 6.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Granite Falls

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Granite Falls by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28630. 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 Granite Falls is

The Census internal point of Granite Falls is at 35.797200, -81.424400. Raleigh, the capital, is 156.1 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sawmills, NC (5,059 people), 3.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Concord, NC, 52.4 miles away.

Daylight in Granite Falls

At 35.80° N, Granite Falls 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 Granite Falls

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Sawmills, 3.2 miles away, with 5,059 people.