Lowesville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lincoln County, North Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, Lowesville had a population of 3,281.
History
Mount Welcome was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.
Geography
Lowesville is located in the southeast corner of Lincoln County. It is bordered to the south by Gaston County. North Carolina Highway 16, a four-lane freeway, passes through the east side of the community, leading northwest to Newton and southeast to Charlotte. It is paralleled by old Highway 16 (NC-16 Business), a two-lane road that runs through the center of Lowesville. Access to new Highway 16 is only from North Carolina Highway 73 at the northern end of the CDP or from NC-16 Business in Lucia, south of the center of Lowesville. NC 73 forms the northern edge of the CDP; it leads east to Interstate 77 in northern Huntersville and west to Lincolnton, the Lincoln county seat.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the Lowesville CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.10%, are water. Killian Creek forms the western edge of the CDP, and Johnson Creek drains the eastern side of the community. The entire community is in the Catawba River watershed.
Lowesville uses the Stanley, North Carolina, 28164 ZIP code.
Demographics
2020 census
As of the 2020 census, Lowesville had a population of 3,281. The median age was 43.7 years. 23.2% of residents were under the age of 18 and 20.0% of residents were 65 years of age or older. For every 100 females there were 94.1 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 90.0 males age 18 and over.
0.0% of residents lived in urban areas, while 100.0% lived in rural areas.
There were 1,272 households in Lowesville, of which 35.3% had children under the age of 18 living in them. Of all households, 62.1% were married-couple households, 10.8% were households with a male householder and no spouse or partner present, and 22.2% were households with a female householder and no spouse or partner present. About 19.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.