Arab, Alabama

Arab population, 2020 to 2024

Arab added 474 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.6%. In the latest year it moved by +74. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 32nd; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Arab is 63% of it.

Arab covers 13.33 square miles of land and 0.13 of water, for 669 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Arab is close to the typical town.

The 2 counties Arab spans

Arab crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 8,918 residents as follows; Marshall County holds 99.8% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Arab

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Arab by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 35016. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Arab is

The Census internal point of Arab is at 34.332400, -86.501200. Montgomery, the capital, is 135.6 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Guntersville, AL (9,242 people), 14.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Huntsville, AL, 27.2 miles away.

Daylight in Arab

At 34.33° N, Arab gets about 14 h 27 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 52 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 36 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Arab

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Guntersville, 14.4 miles away, with 9,242 people.