Tryon, North Carolina

Tryon population, 2020 to 2024

Tryon added 58 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.7%. In the latest year it moved by +19.

Tryon covers 2.00 square miles of land, for 806 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Tryon is less dense than the typical town.

What county Tryon is in

All of Tryon's residents live in Polk County, which had 20,320 residents in 2024. Tryon holds 7.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Tryon

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Tryon by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28782. 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 Tryon is

The Census internal point of Tryon is at 35.208800, -82.237900. Raleigh, the capital, is 206.3 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Landrum, SC (2,792 people), 3.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Charlotte, NC, 79.4 miles away.

Daylight in Tryon

At 35.21° N, Tryon gets about 14 h 32 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 47 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 45 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Tryon

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Columbus, 3.3 miles away, with 1,041 people.