Nashville, North Carolina

Nashville population, 2020 to 2024

Nashville added 198 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.5%. In the latest year it moved by +94. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 90th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Nashville is 40% of it.

Nashville covers 4.70 square miles of land, for 1,245 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Nashville is close to the typical town.

What county Nashville is in

All of Nashville's residents live in Nash County, which had 97,990 residents in 2024. Nashville holds 6.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Nashville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Nashville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27856. 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 Nashville is

The Census internal point of Nashville is at 35.969200, -77.956700. Raleigh, the capital, is 40.4 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rocky Mount, NC (54,541 people), 8.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Raleigh, NC, 39.5 miles away.

Daylight in Nashville

At 35.97° N, Nashville gets about 14 h 36 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 43 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Nashville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Dortches, 6.3 miles away, with 1,083 people.