Mars Hill, North Carolina

Mars Hill population, 2020 to 2024

Mars Hill added 136 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.6%. In the latest year it moved by +21.

Mars Hill covers 2.10 square miles of land, for 1,051 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Mars Hill is less dense than the typical town.

What county Mars Hill is in

All of Mars Hill's residents live in Madison County, which had 22,352 residents in 2024. Mars Hill holds 9.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mars Hill

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mars Hill by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28754. 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 Mars Hill is

The Census internal point of Mars Hill is at 35.828200, -82.548600. Raleigh, the capital, is 219.1 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Weaverville, NC (4,799 people), 8.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 79.0 miles away.

Daylight in Mars Hill

At 35.83° N, Mars Hill gets about 14 h 36 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 44 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 52 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mars Hill

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Weaverville, 8.9 miles away, with 4,799 people.