Hickory, North Carolina

Hickory population, 2020 to 2024

Hickory added 1,393 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.2%. In the latest year it moved by +521. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 97th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Hickory is 3.1 times that size.

Hickory covers 32.29 square miles of land and 0.11 of water, for 1,396 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Hickory is close to the typical town.

The 3 counties Hickory spans

Hickory crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 45,081 residents as follows; Catawba County holds 99.7% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hickory

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Hickory by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 28601, 28602. 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 Hickory is

The Census internal point of Hickory is at 35.739700, -81.320200. Raleigh, the capital, is 150.3 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mooresville, NC (52,884 people), 29.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Concord, NC, 45.4 miles away.

Daylight in Hickory

At 35.74° N, Hickory 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 Hickory

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Long View, 3.8 miles away, with 5,289 people.