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Morganton is a city in and county seat of Burke County, North Carolina, United States. [4] The population was 17,474 at the 2020 census. [5] Morganton is approximately 75 miles (121 km) northwest of Charlotte and 57 miles (92 km) east of Asheville. Morganton is one of the principal cities in the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC Metropolitan ...
Burke County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2020 census, its population was 87,570. [1] Its county seat is Morganton. [2] Burke County is part of the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The Hickory–Lenoir–Morganton, NC Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of four counties, Catawba, Burke, Caldwell, Alexander. It is located in the Catawba Valley region of western North Carolina .
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
According to the 2020 United States census, North Carolina is the 9th-most populous state with 10,439,388 inhabitants, but the 28th-largest by land area spanning 53,819 square miles (139,390 km 2) of land. [1] [2] North Carolina is divided into 100 counties and contains 551 municipalities consisting of cities, towns, or villages. [3]
Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.97% of the population. There were 759 households, out of which 31.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 48.7% were married couples living together, 13.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 33.6% were non-families. 30.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 13 ...
North Carolina Highway 18 Truck (NC 18 Truck) is a 5.0-mile (8.0 km) bypass west and north around downtown Morganton. It starts by going west along Fleming Drive (overlapping US 70 ) and then north along Sanford Drive (overlapping US 64 ), reconnecting with mainline NC 18 at Lenoir Road.
The population density was 505.0 inhabitants per square mile (195.0/km 2). There were 752 housing units at an average density of 209.4 per square mile (80.8/km 2 ). The racial makeup of the town was 90.08% White , 1.65% African American , 0.11% Native American , 7.39% Asian , 0.28% from other races , and 0.50% from two or more races.