Valdese, North Carolina

Valdese population, 2020 to 2024

Valdese added 24 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +11.

Valdese covers 7.86 square miles of land, for 600 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Valdese is less dense than the typical town.

What county Valdese is in

All of Valdese's residents live in Burke County, which had 88,545 residents in 2024. Valdese holds 5.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Valdese

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Valdese by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28612, 28655, 28671, 28690. 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 Valdese is

The Census internal point of Valdese is at 35.755500, -81.572700. Raleigh, the capital, is 164.5 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sawmills, NC (5,059 people), 6.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Charlotte, NC, 56.3 miles away.

Daylight in Valdese

At 35.76° N, Valdese 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 Valdese

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Drexel, 2.0 miles away, with 1,777 people.