Bessemer, Alabama

Bessemer population, 2020 to 2024

Bessemer lost 939 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.6%. In the latest year it moved by +60. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 99th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Bessemer is 1.8 times that size.

Bessemer covers 40.64 square miles of land and 0.21 of water, for 617 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Bessemer is less dense than the typical town.

What county Bessemer is in

All of Bessemer's residents live in Jefferson County, which had 664,744 residents in 2024. Bessemer holds 3.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Bessemer

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Bessemer by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 35020, 35022. 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 Bessemer is

The Census internal point of Bessemer is at 33.370900, -86.971500. Montgomery, the capital, is 79.0 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hoover, AL (93,013 people), 9.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Birmingham, AL, 14.8 miles away.

Daylight in Bessemer

At 33.37° N, Bessemer gets about 14 h 22 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 57 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 25 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Bessemer

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Hueytown, 3.7 miles away, with 16,185 people.