Alabama · Census place 0117824

Cottonwood, Alabama

Cottonwood is a town in Houston County, Alabama with an estimated 1,093 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 248th largest of 257 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
1,093
#248 of 257 in Alabama
Change since 2020
+3.6%
+38 people
Land area
5.8 sq mi
+ 0.02 sq mi water
Density
189 / sq mi
State median 715
Orange pin: Cottonwood. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Montgomery.

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Cottonwood population, 2020 to 2024

Cottonwood added 38 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.6%. In the latest year it moved by +2.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,056. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Cottonwood covers 5.78 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 189 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Cottonwood is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cottonwood is in

All of Cottonwood's residents live in Houston County, which had 109,366 residents in 2024. Cottonwood holds 1.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cottonwood

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cottonwood by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 36320. 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 Cottonwood is

The Census internal point of Cottonwood is at 31.054000, -85.299600. Montgomery, the capital, is 108.7 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Rehobeth, AL (2,107 people), 9.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tallahassee, FL, 74.8 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
31.054000, -85.299600
DMS
31°03'14.40"N 85°17'58.56"W
UTM
16N 662250.2E 3436828.7N
Geohash
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Plus code
863P3P32+J5

Daylight in Cottonwood

At 31.05° N, Cottonwood gets about 14 h 10 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 08 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 02 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cottonwood

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Rehobeth, 9.6 miles away, with 2,107 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Cottonwood, AL?

1,093 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 38 (3.6%) from 1,055 in July 2020.

What county is Cottonwood in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Cottonwood?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 36320.

How far is Cottonwood from Montgomery?

108.7 miles (174.9 km) in a straight line, heading NNW from Cottonwood.

What is the nearest larger city to Cottonwood?

Rehobeth, AL, with 2,107 residents, 9.6 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.