Lexington, North Carolina

Lexington population, 2020 to 2024

Lexington added 391 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.0%. In the latest year it moved by +180. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 113th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Lexington is 1.4 times that size.

Lexington covers 19.22 square miles of land, for 1,036 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Lexington is less dense than the typical town.

What county Lexington is in

All of Lexington's residents live in Davidson County, which had 177,809 residents in 2024. Lexington holds 11.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lexington

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Lexington by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 27292, 27295. 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 Lexington is

The Census internal point of Lexington is at 35.797200, -80.274300. Raleigh, the capital, is 91.7 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Thomasville, NC (27,605 people), 12.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is High Point, NC, 20.7 miles away.

Daylight in Lexington

At 35.80° N, Lexington 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 Lexington

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Spencer, 10.6 miles away, with 3,406 people.