Calera, Alabama

Calera population, 2020 to 2024

Calera added 1,904 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +11.5%. In the latest year it moved by +279. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 16th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Calera is 1.3 times that size.

Calera covers 24.31 square miles of land and 0.26 of water, for 762 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Calera is close to the typical town.

The 2 counties Calera spans

Calera crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 18,530 residents as follows; Shelby County holds 99.6% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Calera

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Calera by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 35040. 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 Calera is

The Census internal point of Calera is at 33.122300, -86.745600. Montgomery, the capital, is 57.6 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Alabaster, AL (34,460 people), 7.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Birmingham, AL, 28.1 miles away.

Daylight in Calera

At 33.12° N, Calera gets about 14 h 21 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 58 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Calera

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Montevallo, 5.9 miles away, with 7,761 people.