Salisbury, North Carolina

Salisbury population, 2020 to 2024

Salisbury added 1,251 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.5%. In the latest year it moved by +265. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 89th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Salisbury is 2.5 times that size.

Salisbury covers 23.10 square miles of land, for 1,584 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Salisbury is denser than the typical town.

What county Salisbury is in

All of Salisbury's residents live in Rowan County, which had 153,384 residents in 2024. Salisbury holds 23.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Salisbury

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Salisbury by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 28144, 28146, 28147. 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 Salisbury is

The Census internal point of Salisbury is at 35.666200, -80.492600. Raleigh, the capital, is 104.3 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kannapolis, NC (60,521 people), 15.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Concord, NC, 20.6 miles away.

Daylight in Salisbury

At 35.67° N, Salisbury gets about 14 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 45 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Salisbury

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is East Spencer, 4.0 miles away, with 1,625 people.