Which ZIP code in Rowan County has the highest share of residents who moved in during the past year?

28071 (Gold Hill), at 15.7%, among 15 ZIP codes with at least 1,000 residents.

Why are some ZIP codes missing?

ZIP codes with fewer than 1,000 residents are left out because their survey estimates swing too much to rank, and so are ZIP codes where the Census Bureau did not publish this figure.

ZIP codes with the most new movers in Rowan County, NC

These are the 15 ZIP codes in Rowan County with the highest share of residents who moved in during the past year, out of 15 with at least 1,000 residents. 28071 (Gold Hill, 15.7%), 28147 (Salisbury, 14.8%) and 28144 (Salisbury, 12.8%) lead the list. There is no single "best" ZIP code in Rowan County; the right one depends on who you want to reach, so the same ZIP codes are ranked several ways below.

ZIP codes with the most new movers in Rowan County

Rank	ZIP	Mailing city	Moved in the past year	Residents	Households	Residential mailboxes
1	28071	Gold Hill	15.7%	4,219	1,572	1,354
2	28147	Salisbury	14.8%	25,812	9,555	11,530
3	28144	Salisbury	12.8%	27,977	11,270	11,410
4	28146	Salisbury	11.6%	31,292	12,649	13,984
5	28115	Mooresville	11.1%	43,544	16,237	20,336
6	28083	Kannapolis	9.8%	28,095	10,930	11,776
7	28081	Kannapolis	8.7%	29,075	11,581	13,652
8	28023	China Grove	8.1%	15,495	6,081	6,914
9	28159	Spencer	7.2%	3,250	1,321	1,343
10	27013	Cleveland	7.1%	6,575	2,360	2,608
11	28138	Rockwell	6.5%	10,271	4,178	4,407
12	28125	Mount Ulla	4.7%	2,765	1,045	1,294
13	28137	Richfield	4.6%	2,664	987	1,277
14	28088	Landis	3.8%	3,054	1,283	1,509
15	27054	Woodleaf	1.7%	1,931	942	1,093

How we ranked them

Ranked by the share of residents (age 1 and over) who lived in a different home a year earlier (ACS Data Profile, 2020–2024). No margin of error is published for this share in our files. ZIP codes need at least 1,000 residents to be ranked; 15 of 18 qualify.

Which of these to mail, and why

New residents are still choosing a dentist, a gym, a pizza place and a lawn service. ZIP codes with high turnover give a welcome offer more people to work on each year.

The top five ZIP codes on this list hold 51,283 households, on 90 carrier routes with 58,614 residential mailboxes. Open any of them on the route map to see each carrier route's own figures before you choose.

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Frequently asked questions

Which ZIP code in Rowan County has the highest share of residents who moved in during the past year?: 28071 (Gold Hill), at 15.7%, among 15 ZIP codes with at least 1,000 residents.
How is this ranking calculated?: Ranked by the share of residents (age 1 and over) who lived in a different home a year earlier (ACS Data Profile, 2020–2024). No margin of error is published for this share in our files.
Why are some ZIP codes missing?: ZIP codes with fewer than 1,000 residents are left out because their survey estimates swing too much to rank, and so are ZIP codes where the Census Bureau did not publish this figure.

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