Lenoir, North Carolina

Lenoir population, 2020 to 2024

Lenoir lost 70 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +13. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 132nd; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Lenoir is 1.3 times that size.

Lenoir covers 20.83 square miles of land, for 878 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Lenoir is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lenoir is in

All of Lenoir's residents live in Caldwell County, which had 80,739 residents in 2024. Lenoir holds 22.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lenoir

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lenoir by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 28645. 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 Lenoir is

The Census internal point of Lenoir is at 35.907700, -81.524800. Raleigh, the capital, is 161.9 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hickory, NC (45,081 people), 16.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Concord, NC, 61.3 miles away.

Daylight in Lenoir

At 35.91° N, Lenoir gets about 14 h 36 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 43 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lenoir

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Cajah's Mountain, 4.0 miles away, with 2,699 people.