North Carolina · Census place 3745660

Murphy, North Carolina

Murphy is a town in Cherokee County, North Carolina with an estimated 1,693 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 273rd largest of 335 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,693
#273 of 335 in North Carolina
Change since 2020
+5.0%
+80 people
Land area
2.6 sq mi
+ 0.11 sq mi water
Density
659 / sq mi
State median 1,316
Orange pin: Murphy. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Raleigh.

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Murphy population, 2020 to 2024

Murphy added 80 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.0%. In the latest year it moved by +19.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,609. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Murphy covers 2.57 square miles of land and 0.11 of water, for 659 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Murphy is less dense than the typical town.

What county Murphy is in

All of Murphy's residents live in Cherokee County, which had 30,373 residents in 2024. Murphy holds 5.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Murphy

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Murphy by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28906. 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 Murphy is

The Census internal point of Murphy is at 35.094300, -84.024900. Raleigh, the capital, is 306.8 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Andrews, NC (1,762 people), 13.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 60.7 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
35.094300, -84.024900
DMS
35°05'39.48"N 84°01'29.64"W
UTM
16N 771212.6E 3887551.1N
Geohash
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Plus code
867Q3XVG+P2

Daylight in Murphy

At 35.09° N, Murphy 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 44 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Murphy

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Andrews, 13.4 miles away, with 1,762 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Murphy, NC?

1,693 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 80 (5.0%) from 1,613 in July 2020.

What county is Murphy in?

Cherokee County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Murphy?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 28906.

How far is Murphy from Raleigh?

306.8 miles (493.8 km) in a straight line, heading E from Murphy.

What is the nearest larger city to Murphy?

Andrews, NC, with 1,762 residents, 13.4 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.