Mills River, North Carolina

Mills River population, 2020 to 2024

Mills River added 278 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.9%. In the latest year it moved by +77. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 83rd; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Mills River is 51% of it.

Mills River covers 22.38 square miles of land and 0.20 of water, for 332 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Mills River is less dense than the typical town.

What county Mills River is in

All of Mills River's residents live in Henderson County, which had 120,771 residents in 2024. Mills River holds 6.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mills River

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Mills River by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28759. 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 Mills River is

The Census internal point of Mills River is at 35.381400, -82.588900. Raleigh, the capital, is 223.6 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fletcher, NC (8,251 people), 5.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 86.6 miles away.

Daylight in Mills River

At 35.38° N, Mills River gets about 14 h 33 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 46 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mills River

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Fletcher, 5.8 miles away, with 8,251 people.