Spruce Pine, North Carolina

Spruce Pine population, 2020 to 2024

Spruce Pine lost 5 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.2%. In the latest year it moved by +1.

Spruce Pine covers 4.06 square miles of land, for 540 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Spruce Pine is less dense than the typical town.

What county Spruce Pine is in

All of Spruce Pine's residents live in Mitchell County, which had 15,030 residents in 2024. Spruce Pine holds 14.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Spruce Pine

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Spruce Pine by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28777. 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 Spruce Pine is

The Census internal point of Spruce Pine is at 35.914000, -82.069700. Raleigh, the capital, is 192.4 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Marion, NC (7,534 people), 16.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Charlotte, NC, 84.9 miles away.

Daylight in Spruce Pine

At 35.91° N, Spruce Pine gets about 14 h 36 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 43 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 53 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Spruce Pine

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Burnsville, 12.8 miles away, with 1,626 people.