Matthews, North Carolina

Matthews population, 2020 to 2024

Matthews added 2,528 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.6%. In the latest year it moved by +802. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 45th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Matthews is 2.2 times that size.

Matthews covers 17.11 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 1,873 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Matthews is denser than the typical town.

What county Matthews is in

All of Matthews's residents live in Mecklenburg County, which had 1,206,285 residents in 2024. Matthews holds 2.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Matthews

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Matthews by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28105. 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 Matthews is

The Census internal point of Matthews is at 35.119800, -80.709700. Raleigh, the capital, is 125.2 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Indian Trail, NC (43,867 people), 4.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Charlotte, NC, 9.2 miles away.

Daylight in Matthews

At 35.12° N, Matthews 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 44 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Matthews

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Stallings, 2.9 miles away, with 17,617 people.