Pilot Mountain, North Carolina

Pilot Mountain population, 2020 to 2024

Pilot Mountain lost 6 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.4%. In the latest year it moved by +0.

Pilot Mountain covers 2.04 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 701 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Pilot Mountain is less dense than the typical town.

What county Pilot Mountain is in

All of Pilot Mountain's residents live in Surry County, which had 71,547 residents in 2024. Pilot Mountain holds 2.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pilot Mountain

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Pilot Mountain by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27041. 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 Pilot Mountain is

The Census internal point of Pilot Mountain is at 36.383900, -80.474200. Raleigh, the capital, is 110.6 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is King, NC (7,764 people), 10.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Winston-Salem, NC, 22.7 miles away.

Daylight in Pilot Mountain

At 36.38° N, Pilot Mountain gets about 14 h 39 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 41 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 58 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pilot Mountain

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is King, 10.0 miles away, with 7,764 people.