Carbon Hill, Alabama

Carbon Hill population, 2020 to 2024

Carbon Hill lost 34 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.9%. In the latest year it moved by -8.

Carbon Hill covers 5.51 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 313 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Carbon Hill is less dense than the typical town.

What county Carbon Hill is in

All of Carbon Hill's residents live in Walker County, which had 65,260 residents in 2024. Carbon Hill holds 2.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Carbon Hill

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Carbon Hill by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 35549. 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 Carbon Hill is

The Census internal point of Carbon Hill is at 33.895000, -87.522100. Montgomery, the capital, is 126.5 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Jasper, AL (14,561 people), 14.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tuscaloosa, AL, 45.7 miles away.

Daylight in Carbon Hill

At 33.90° N, Carbon Hill gets about 14 h 25 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 54 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 31 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Carbon Hill

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Jasper, 14.9 miles away, with 14,561 people.