Attalla, Alabama

Attalla population, 2020 to 2024

Attalla lost 83 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.4%. In the latest year it moved by -4. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 78th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Attalla is 41% of it.

Attalla covers 7.00 square miles of land, for 821 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Attalla is denser than the typical town.

What county Attalla is in

All of Attalla's residents live in Etowah County, which had 103,207 residents in 2024. Attalla holds 5.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Attalla

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Attalla by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 35954. 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 Attalla is

The Census internal point of Attalla is at 33.986200, -86.121000. Montgomery, the capital, is 111.7 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rainbow City, AL (10,349 people), 4.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Birmingham, AL, 50.1 miles away.

Daylight in Attalla

At 33.99° N, Attalla gets about 14 h 25 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 53 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 32 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Attalla

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Rainbow City, 4.5 miles away, with 10,349 people.