Statesville, North Carolina

Statesville population, 2020 to 2024

Statesville added 3,094 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +10.8%. In the latest year it moved by +1,383. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 30th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Statesville is 2.2 times that size.

Statesville covers 28.06 square miles of land and 0.13 of water, for 1,129 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Statesville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Statesville is in

All of Statesville's residents live in Iredell County, which had 206,361 residents in 2024. Statesville holds 15.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Statesville

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Statesville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 28625, 28677. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Statesville is

The Census internal point of Statesville is at 35.785500, -80.873000. Raleigh, the capital, is 125.2 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Mooresville, NC (52,884 people), 14.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Concord, NC, 30.3 miles away.

Daylight in Statesville

At 35.79° N, Statesville 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 Statesville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Troutman, 6.2 miles away, with 4,234 people.