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Alexander County, North Carolina
Alexander County occupies the Piedmont foothills between Statesville and Hickory, with Taylorsville as its seat and Bethlehem as its largest unincorporated community. Growth here rides the coattails of the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton furniture and manufacturing corridor along I-40, most land stays agricultural or low-density rural residential, and the Hiddenite gem mines add a niche tourism draw that shapes mineral-rights and land-use questions for anyone assembling parcels.
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Alexander County at a glance
- 37,000Population (2025)
- TaylorsvilleCounty seat
- 260 sq miLand area
- 142 / sq miDensity
- $65,000Median household income
- $210,000Median home value
What the live Alexander County map shows
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- City Boundaries: 1
- School Boundaries - Elementary: 7
- School Boundaries - Middle: 2
- School Boundaries - High: 1
- Congressional Districts: 1
- Soils: 69
- State House Districts: 5
- State Senate Districts: 4
Cities and towns in Alexander County
Taylorsville.