Hendersonville, North Carolina

Hendersonville population, 2020 to 2024

Hendersonville added 446 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.9%. In the latest year it moved by +135. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 100th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Hendersonville is 1.1 times that size.

Hendersonville covers 7.89 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 1,984 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Hendersonville is denser than the typical town.

What county Hendersonville is in

All of Hendersonville's residents live in Henderson County, which had 120,771 residents in 2024. Hendersonville holds 13.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hendersonville

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Hendersonville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 28739, 28791, 28792. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Hendersonville is

The Census internal point of Hendersonville is at 35.323400, -82.455800. Raleigh, the capital, is 216.8 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Asheville, NC (94,992 people), 18.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Charlotte, NC, 92.0 miles away.

Daylight in Hendersonville

At 35.32° N, Hendersonville 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 46 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hendersonville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Laurel Park, 2.8 miles away, with 2,319 people.