Lincolnton, North Carolina

Lincolnton population, 2020 to 2024

Lincolnton added 1,218 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +10.9%. In the latest year it moved by +207. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 29th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Lincolnton is 85% of it.

Lincolnton covers 8.97 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 1,377 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Lincolnton is close to the typical town.

What county Lincolnton is in

All of Lincolnton's residents live in Lincoln County, which had 97,611 residents in 2024. Lincolnton holds 12.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Lincolnton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Lincolnton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 28092. 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 Lincolnton is

The Census internal point of Lincolnton is at 35.475700, -81.239200. Raleigh, the capital, is 147.5 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Newton, NC (13,571 people), 12.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Charlotte, NC, 29.5 miles away.

Daylight in Lincolnton

At 35.48° N, Lincolnton gets about 14 h 34 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 46 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 48 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Lincolnton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Maiden, 8.0 miles away, with 3,854 people.