Haw River, North Carolina

Haw River population, 2020 to 2024

Haw River added 136 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.0%. In the latest year it moved by +35.

Haw River covers 3.10 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 771 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Haw River is less dense than the typical town.

What county Haw River is in

All of Haw River's residents live in Alamance County, which had 183,040 residents in 2024. Haw River holds 1.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Haw River

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Haw River by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27217, 27253, 27258. 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 Haw River is

The Census internal point of Haw River is at 36.091900, -79.358900. Raleigh, the capital, is 45.7 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Green Level, NC (3,362 people), 2.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Greensboro, NC, 26.0 miles away.

Daylight in Haw River

At 36.09° N, Haw River 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 Haw River

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Green Level, 2.3 miles away, with 3,362 people.