Woodfin, North Carolina

Woodfin population, 2020 to 2024

Woodfin added 180 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.3%. In the latest year it moved by +103. Among 147 North Carolina places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 107th; the median place changed by +4.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in North Carolina has 14,573 people, so Woodfin is 56% of it.

Woodfin covers 9.35 square miles of land and 0.38 of water, for 873 people per square mile of land. The median North Carolina place of 5,000+ has 1,316, so Woodfin is less dense than the typical town.

What county Woodfin is in

All of Woodfin's residents live in Buncombe County, which had 279,210 residents in 2024. Woodfin holds 2.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Woodfin

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

The Census internal point of Woodfin is at 35.646100, -82.594400. Raleigh, the capital, is 222.1 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Asheville, NC (94,992 people), 5.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 79.2 miles away.

Daylight in Woodfin

At 35.65° N, Woodfin gets about 14 h 34 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 45 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 Woodfin

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in North Carolina, measured between internal points. The closest is Weaverville, 4.3 miles away, with 4,799 people.