Auburn, Alabama

Auburn population, 2020 to 2024

Auburn added 6,691 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.7%. In the latest year it moved by +1,310. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 21st; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Auburn is 5.9 times that size.

Auburn covers 62.95 square miles of land and 1.03 of water, for 1,331 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Auburn is denser than the typical town.

What county Auburn is in

All of Auburn's residents live in Lee County, which had 187,847 residents in 2024. Auburn holds 44.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Auburn

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Auburn by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 36830, 36832, 36849. 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 Auburn is

The Census internal point of Auburn is at 32.607800, -85.494700. Montgomery, the capital, is 49.6 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Columbus, GA (201,830 people), 36.7 miles away.

Daylight in Auburn

At 32.61° N, Auburn gets about 14 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 00 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 18 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Auburn

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Opelika, 7.7 miles away, with 35,005 people.