Bear Creek, Alabama

Bear Creek population, 2020 to 2024

Bear Creek added 14 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.3%. In the latest year it moved by +6.

Bear Creek covers 13.63 square miles of land and 0.14 of water, for 77 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Bear Creek is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bear Creek is in

All of Bear Creek's residents live in Marion County, which had 29,323 residents in 2024. Bear Creek holds 3.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bear Creek

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Bear Creek by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 35543, 35581. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Bear Creek is

The Census internal point of Bear Creek is at 34.255500, -87.713400. Montgomery, the capital, is 153.3 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Haleyville, AL (4,313 people), 5.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Huntsville, AL, 66.5 miles away.

Daylight in Bear Creek

At 34.26° N, Bear Creek 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 35 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bear Creek

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Haleyville, 5.7 miles away, with 4,313 people.