Mount Holly, North Carolina

Mount Holly population, 2020 to 2024

Mount Holly added 959 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.4%. In the latest year it moved by +301. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 67th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Mount Holly is 1.3 times that size.

Mount Holly covers 11.27 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 1,661 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Mount Holly is denser than the typical town.

What county Mount Holly is in

All of Mount Holly's residents live in Gaston County, which had 242,010 residents in 2024. Mount Holly holds 7.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Mount Holly

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Mount Holly by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 28012, 28120. 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 Mount Holly is

The Census internal point of Mount Holly is at 35.314400, -81.006600. Raleigh, the capital, is 136.9 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Huntersville, NC (67,087 people), 10.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Charlotte, NC, 12.3 miles away.

Daylight in Mount Holly

At 35.31° N, Mount Holly 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 46 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Mount Holly

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Stanley, 5.6 miles away, with 4,147 people.