Morganton, North Carolina

Morganton population, 2020 to 2024

Morganton added 315 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.8%. In the latest year it moved by +115. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 115th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Morganton is 1.2 times that size.

Morganton covers 19.23 square miles of land, for 927 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Morganton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Morganton is in

All of Morganton's residents live in Burke County, which had 88,545 residents in 2024. Morganton holds 20.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Morganton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Morganton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 28655. 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 Morganton is

The Census internal point of Morganton is at 35.740800, -81.700300. Raleigh, the capital, is 171.7 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lenoir, NC (18,280 people), 15.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Charlotte, NC, 61.2 miles away.

Daylight in Morganton

At 35.74° N, Morganton gets about 14 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 44 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Morganton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Glen Alpine, 4.7 miles away, with 1,532 people.