Alabama · Census place 0109736

Brookside, Alabama

Brookside is a town in Jefferson County, Alabama with an estimated 1,357 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 230th largest of 257 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,357
#230 of 257 in Alabama
Change since 2020
+9.2%
+114 people
Land area
6.3 sq mi
Density
215 / sq mi
State median 715
Orange pin: Brookside. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Montgomery.

Brookside population, 2020 to 2024

Brookside added 114 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +9.2%. In the latest year it moved by +158.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,246. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Brookside covers 6.31 square miles of land, for 215 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Brookside is less dense than the typical town.

What county Brookside is in

All of Brookside's residents live in Jefferson County, which had 664,744 residents in 2024. Brookside holds 0.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Brookside

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Brookside by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 35036, 35073, 35117, 35214. 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 Brookside is

The Census internal point of Brookside is at 33.634600, -86.906300. Montgomery, the capital, is 93.7 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Graysville, AL (1,859 people), 2.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Birmingham, AL, 9.8 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
33.634600, -86.906300
DMS
33°38'4.56"N 86°54'22.68"W
UTM
16N 508689.9E 3721646.3N
Geohash
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Plus code
865MJ3MV+RF

Daylight in Brookside

At 33.63° N, Brookside gets about 14 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Brookside

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Graysville, 2.0 miles away, with 1,859 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Brookside, AL?

1,357 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 114 (9.2%) from 1,243 in July 2020.

What county is Brookside in?

Jefferson County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Brookside?

4 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 35036, 35073, 35117, 35214.

How far is Brookside from Montgomery?

93.7 miles (150.8 km) in a straight line, heading SSE from Brookside.

What is the nearest larger city to Brookside?

Graysville, AL, with 1,859 residents, 2.1 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.