North Carolina · Census place 3771560

Weaverville, North Carolina

Weaverville is a town in Buncombe County, North Carolina with an estimated 4,799 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 155th largest of 335 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
4,799
#155 of 335 in North Carolina
Change since 2020
+4.7%
+215 people
Land area
4.0 sq mi
Density
1,215 / sq mi
State median 1,316
Orange pin: Weaverville. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Raleigh.

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Weaverville population, 2020 to 2024

Weaverville added 215 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.7%. In the latest year it moved by +67.

4,58420204,63620214,68020224,73220234,7992024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 4,572. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Weaverville covers 3.95 square miles of land, for 1,215 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Weaverville is close to the typical town.

What county Weaverville is in

All of Weaverville's residents live in Buncombe County, which had 279,210 residents in 2024. Weaverville 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 Weaverville

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Weaverville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 28787, 28804. 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 Weaverville is

The Census internal point of Weaverville is at 35.699300, -82.555700. Raleigh, the capital, is 219.7 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Woodfin, NC (8,158 people), 4.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 80.3 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
35.699300, -82.555700
DMS
35°41'57.48"N 82°33'20.52"W
UTM
17N 359252.5E 3951712.4N
Geohash
dnm716ug2
Plus code
867VMCXV+PP

Daylight in Weaverville

At 35.70° N, Weaverville 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 50 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Weaverville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Woodfin, 4.3 miles away, with 8,158 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Weaverville, NC?

4,799 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 215 (4.7%) from 4,584 in July 2020.

What county is Weaverville in?

Buncombe County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Weaverville?

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 28787, 28804.

How far is Weaverville from Raleigh?

219.7 miles (353.6 km) in a straight line, heading E from Weaverville.

What is the nearest larger city to Weaverville?

Woodfin, NC, with 8,158 residents, 4.3 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.