Granite Quarry, North Carolina

Granite Quarry population, 2020 to 2024

Granite Quarry added 111 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.7%. In the latest year it moved by +26.

Granite Quarry covers 2.95 square miles of land, for 1,053 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Granite Quarry is less dense than the typical town.

What county Granite Quarry is in

All of Granite Quarry's residents live in Rowan County, which had 153,384 residents in 2024. Granite Quarry holds 2.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Granite Quarry

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Granite Quarry by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28072, 28146. 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 Quarry is

The Census internal point of Granite Quarry is at 35.613100, -80.448700. Raleigh, the capital, is 102.2 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Salisbury, NC (36,579 people), 4.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Concord, NC, 18.5 miles away.

Daylight in Granite Quarry

At 35.61° N, Granite Quarry gets about 14 h 34 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 45 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 49 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Granite Quarry

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Salisbury, 4.4 miles away, with 36,579 people.