Boaz, Alabama

Boaz population, 2020 to 2024

Boaz added 361 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.6%. In the latest year it moved by +82. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 42nd; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Boaz is 74% of it.

Boaz covers 14.55 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 720 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Boaz is close to the typical town.

The 2 counties Boaz spans

Boaz crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 10,473 residents as follows; Marshall County holds 89.4% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Boaz

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Boaz by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 35956, 35957. 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 Boaz is

The Census internal point of Boaz is at 34.199000, -86.155200. Montgomery, the capital, is 126.2 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Albertville, AL (23,392 people), 5.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Huntsville, AL, 45.5 miles away.

Daylight in Boaz

At 34.20° N, Boaz gets about 14 h 26 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 52 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 34 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Boaz

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Sardis City, 2.8 miles away, with 1,782 people.