Alton, North Carolina

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Alton has not been included in past Census counts, so there is no specific census information for this community.

Alton is located in Union County and for a more general look at the area, please visit our Census Page for Union County.

While Alton does not have census information, you might be interested in some nearby communites that do:

	Community	Population<1>	Direction	Distance<2>
	Charlotte	540,828	NW	27 mi [43.45 km]
	Rock Hill (SC)	49,765	W	27 mi [43.45 km]

To learn more about neighboring communities, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Alton.

Population Rings

To help identify the number of people who live in Alton and the surrounding area, we have drawn concentric rings centered on Alton. We counted the number of communities within each ring and summed their populations.^<3> We don't have the population of Alton, so its people haven't been included.

US Census QuickFacts

The Census Bureau has created documents containing demographic information called QuickFacts. Unfortunately, the Census Bureau has not created a QuickFact that is specific to Alton.

A Census Quickfact is available for Union County (QF-37179).

Below are QuickFacts for the counties that border Union County.

	County	Census QuickFact	Direction	2008 Population	Change Since 2000
	Cabarrus	QF-37025	N	168,740	27.62% increase
	Stanly	QF-37167	NE	59,614	2.35% increase
	Anson	QF-37007	E	25,162	0.59% decrease
	Chesterfield (SC)	QF-45025	SE	42,882	0.11% increase
	Lancaster (SC)	QF-45057	S	75,913	23.65% increase
	Mecklenburg	QF-37119	NW	890,515	27.09% increase

Miscellaneous Information

The Federal government has assigned identifying codes to each community, county and state. The following FIPS codes apply to Alton:

Alton is located in Census Region #3 (the South Region) and in Division #5 (the South Atlantic Division).

For more information about various Federal Codes, please visit our Misc. Page for Alton.

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Search for Local Businesses

Google's 'Search-by-Location' is a very useful tool for people who might be planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Alton. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).

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