Huntersville, North Carolina

Huntersville population, 2020 to 2024

Huntersville added 5,478 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.9%. In the latest year it moved by +1,720. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 36th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Huntersville is 4.6 times that size.

Huntersville covers 41.85 square miles of land and 0.21 of water, for 1,603 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Huntersville is denser than the typical town.

What county Huntersville is in

All of Huntersville's residents live in Mecklenburg County, which had 1,206,285 residents in 2024. Huntersville holds 5.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Huntersville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Huntersville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28078. 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 Huntersville is

The Census internal point of Huntersville is at 35.406800, -80.868700. Raleigh, the capital, is 127.9 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Concord, NC (112,395 people), 13.2 miles away.

Daylight in Huntersville

At 35.41° N, Huntersville 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 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Huntersville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Cornelius, 4.6 miles away, with 34,366 people.