Kings Mountain, North Carolina

Kings Mountain population, 2020 to 2024

Kings Mountain added 600 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.4%. In the latest year it moved by -36. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 69th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Kings Mountain is 81% of it.

Kings Mountain covers 14.59 square miles of land and 0.21 of water, for 809 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Kings Mountain is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Kings Mountain spans

Kings Mountain crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 11,797 residents as follows; Cleveland County holds 90.0% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Kings Mountain

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Kings Mountain by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 28086. 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 Kings Mountain is

The Census internal point of Kings Mountain is at 35.235800, -81.350400. Raleigh, the capital, is 157.1 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Gastonia, NC (85,535 people), 9.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Charlotte, NC, 29.4 miles away.

Daylight in Kings Mountain

At 35.24° N, Kings Mountain gets about 14 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Kings Mountain

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Bessemer City, 5.1 miles away, with 5,730 people.