Siler City, North Carolina

Siler City population, 2020 to 2024

Siler City added 328 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.2%. In the latest year it moved by -26. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 80th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Siler City is 55% of it.

Siler City covers 6.75 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,198 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Siler City is close to the typical town.

What county Siler City is in

All of Siler City's residents live in Chatham County, which had 83,874 residents in 2024. Siler City holds 9.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Siler City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Siler City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 27344. 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 Siler City is

The Census internal point of Siler City is at 35.727100, -79.463700. Raleigh, the capital, is 46.4 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Asheboro, NC (27,928 people), 19.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Greensboro, NC, 32.4 miles away.

Daylight in Siler City

At 35.73° N, Siler City 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 51 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Siler City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Liberty, 10.6 miles away, with 2,715 people.