Stanley, North Carolina

Stanley population, 2020 to 2024

Stanley added 162 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.1%. In the latest year it moved by +61.

Stanley covers 3.06 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,355 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Stanley is close to the typical town.

What county Stanley is in

All of Stanley's residents live in Gaston County, which had 242,010 residents in 2024. Stanley holds 1.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Stanley

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Stanley by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28164. 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 Stanley is

The Census internal point of Stanley is at 35.354700, -81.091800. Raleigh, the capital, is 140.9 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ranlo, NC (4,756 people), 5.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Charlotte, NC, 17.8 miles away.

Daylight in Stanley

At 35.35° N, Stanley 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 Stanley

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Ranlo, 4.9 miles away, with 4,756 people.