Ansonville is a town in Anson County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 440 at the 2020 census. The town has an area of , all land. It is on the northern edge of Anson County, about a mile west of the Pee Dee River.
History
The town was settled in 1844. In 1850, the North Carolina Legislature created the Carolina Female College in Ansonville. The facility was run by and for the daughters of local planters, and served only white women. Sources differ on when the facility closed, but all agree the Civil War was the reason for its closure, in either 1862 or 1867.
Demographics
2020 census
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|+Ansonville town, North Carolina – Racial and ethnic composition<br><small></small>
!Race / Ethnicity <small>(NH = Non-Hispanic)</small>
!Pop 2000
!Pop 2010
!
!% 2000
!% 2010
!
|-
|White alone (NH)
|143
|170
|style='background: #ffffe6; |99
|22.48%
|26.94%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |22.50%
|-
|Black or African American alone (NH)
|484
|437
|style='background: #ffffe6; |318
|76.10%
|69.26%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |72.27%
|-
|Native American or Alaska Native alone (NH)
|0
|0
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2
|0.00%
|0.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.45%
|-
|Asian alone (NH)
|3
|5
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1
|0.47%
|0.79%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.23%
|-
|Pacific Islander alone (NH)
|0
|0
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0
|0.00%
|0.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.00%
|-
|Other Race alone (NH)
|0
|1
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1
|0.00%
|0.16%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |0.23%
|-
|Mixed Race or Multiracial (NH)
|4
|2
|style='background: #ffffe6; |6
|0.63%
|0.32%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |1.36%
|-
|Hispanic or Latino (any race)
|2
|16
|style='background: #ffffe6; |13
|0.31%
|2.54%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |2.95%
|-
|Total
|636
|631
|style='background: #ffffe6; |440
|100.00%
|100.00%
|style='background: #ffffe6; |100.00%
|}
As of the census