Norton, Virginia

Norton population, 2020 to 2024

Norton lost 203 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.5%. In the latest year it moved by -23.

Norton covers 7.48 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 465 people per square mile of land. The median Virginia place of 5,000+ has 1,784, so Norton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Norton is in

All of Norton's residents live in Norton city, which had 3,478 residents in 2024. Norton holds 100.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Norton

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Norton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 24273. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Norton is

The Census internal point of Norton is at 36.931500, -82.626000. Richmond, the capital, is 288.6 miles E in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Big Stone Gap, VA (5,087 people), 9.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 99.0 miles away.

Daylight in Norton

At 36.93° N, Norton gets about 14 h 42 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 38 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 04 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Norton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Virginia, measured between internal points. The closest is Wise, 4.0 miles away, with 2,869 people.