Spindale, North Carolina

Spindale population, 2020 to 2024

Spindale added 79 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.9%. In the latest year it moved by +4.

Spindale covers 5.41 square miles of land, for 770 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Spindale is less dense than the typical town.

What county Spindale is in

All of Spindale's residents live in Rutherford County, which had 65,587 residents in 2024. Spindale holds 6.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Spindale

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Spindale by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28160. 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 Spindale is

The Census internal point of Spindale is at 35.359700, -81.923200. Raleigh, the capital, is 186.8 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Forest City, NC (7,397 people), 3.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Charlotte, NC, 62.4 miles away.

Daylight in Spindale

At 35.36° N, Spindale gets about 14 h 33 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 46 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 47 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Spindale

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Rutherfordton, 2.2 miles away, with 3,718 people.