Sawmills, North Carolina

Sawmills population, 2020 to 2024

Sawmills added 33 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.7%. In the latest year it moved by +17. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 123rd; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Sawmills is 35% of it.

Sawmills covers 6.61 square miles of land, for 765 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Sawmills is less dense than the typical town.

What county Sawmills is in

All of Sawmills's residents live in Caldwell County, which had 80,739 residents in 2024. Sawmills holds 6.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sawmills

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Sawmills by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28630, 28638. 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 Sawmills is

The Census internal point of Sawmills is at 35.817600, -81.476300. Raleigh, the capital, is 159.0 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lenoir, NC (18,280 people), 6.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Charlotte, NC, 55.6 miles away.

Daylight in Sawmills

At 35.82° N, Sawmills gets about 14 h 35 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 44 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 52 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sawmills

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Hudson, 2.2 miles away, with 3,771 people.