Alabama · Census place 0102908

Ashville, Alabama

Ashville is a city in St. Clair County, Alabama with an estimated 2,402 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 158th largest of 257 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
2,402
#158 of 257 in Alabama
Change since 2020
+2.0%
+48 people
Land area
19.2 sq mi
+ 0.19 sq mi water
Density
125 / sq mi
State median 715
Orange pin: Ashville. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Montgomery.

Ashville population, 2020 to 2024

Ashville added 48 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.0%. In the latest year it moved by +32.

2,35420202,37620212,37220222,37020232,4022024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 2,349. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Ashville covers 19.21 square miles of land and 0.19 of water, for 125 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Ashville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Ashville is in

All of Ashville's residents live in St. Clair County, which had 96,927 residents in 2024. Ashville holds 2.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ashville

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Ashville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 35953, 35987. 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 Ashville is

The Census internal point of Ashville is at 33.835200, -86.270000. Montgomery, the capital, is 100.8 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rainbow City, AL (10,349 people), 12.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Birmingham, AL, 37.0 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
33.835200, -86.270000
DMS
33°50'6.72"N 86°16'12.00"W
UTM
16N 567544.5E 3744123.1N
Geohash
dn48kzs07
Plus code
865MRPPJ+32

Daylight in Ashville

At 33.84° N, Ashville gets about 14 h 24 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 54 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 30 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ashville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Steele, 8.6 miles away, with 1,003 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Ashville, AL?

2,402 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 48 (2.0%) from 2,354 in July 2020.

What county is Ashville in?

St. Clair County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Ashville?

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 35953, 35987.

How far is Ashville from Montgomery?

100.8 miles (162.2 km) in a straight line, heading S from Ashville.

What is the nearest larger city to Ashville?

Rainbow City, AL, with 10,349 residents, 12.5 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.