Monroe, North Carolina

Monroe population, 2020 to 2024

Monroe added 5,369 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +15.5%. In the latest year it moved by +2,104. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 15th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Monroe is 2.7 times that size.

Monroe covers 32.19 square miles of land and 0.63 of water, for 1,244 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Monroe is close to the typical town.

What county Monroe is in

All of Monroe's residents live in Union County, which had 263,386 residents in 2024. Monroe holds 15.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Monroe

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Monroe by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 28110, 28112. 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 Monroe is

The Census internal point of Monroe is at 35.001600, -80.561300. Raleigh, the capital, is 120.9 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Indian Trail, NC (43,867 people), 6.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Charlotte, NC, 20.9 miles away.

Daylight in Monroe

At 35.00° N, Monroe gets about 14 h 31 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 48 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 43 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Monroe

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Unionville, 5.9 miles away, with 7,258 people.