Waxhaw, North Carolina

Waxhaw population, 2020 to 2024

Waxhaw added 2,398 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +11.5%. In the latest year it moved by +21. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 26th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Waxhaw is 1.6 times that size.

Waxhaw covers 12.19 square miles of land and 0.09 of water, for 1,901 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Waxhaw is denser than the typical town.

What county Waxhaw is in

All of Waxhaw's residents live in Union County, which had 263,386 residents in 2024. Waxhaw holds 8.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Waxhaw

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Waxhaw by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28173. 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 Waxhaw is

The Census internal point of Waxhaw is at 34.937500, -80.740000. Raleigh, the capital, is 131.9 miles ENE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Indian Trail, NC (43,867 people), 10.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Charlotte, NC, 19.4 miles away.

Daylight in Waxhaw

At 34.94° N, Waxhaw gets about 14 h 30 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 48 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 42 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Waxhaw

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Mineral Springs, 3.1 miles away, with 3,456 people.