Alabama · Census place 0118088

Cowarts, Alabama

Cowarts is a town in Houston County, Alabama with an estimated 2,038 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 184th largest of 257 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
2,038
#184 of 257 in Alabama
Change since 2020
+5.3%
+102 people
Land area
7.7 sq mi
+ 0.06 sq mi water
Density
266 / sq mi
State median 715
Orange pin: Cowarts. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Montgomery.

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Cowarts population, 2020 to 2024

Cowarts added 102 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.3%. In the latest year it moved by +39.

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July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 1,931. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Cowarts covers 7.65 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 266 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Cowarts is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cowarts is in

All of Cowarts's residents live in Houston County, which had 109,366 residents in 2024. Cowarts holds 1.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cowarts

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Cowarts by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 36303, 36321. 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 Cowarts is

The Census internal point of Cowarts is at 31.206200, -85.309800. Montgomery, the capital, is 99.6 miles NW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Ashford, AL (2,397 people), 4.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tallahassee, FL, 81.5 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
31.206200, -85.309800
DMS
31°12'22.32"N 85°18'35.28"W
UTM
16N 661019.4E 3453685.2N
Geohash
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Plus code
863P6M4R+F3

Daylight in Cowarts

At 31.21° N, Cowarts gets about 14 h 11 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 07 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 04 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cowarts

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Webb, 3.7 miles away, with 1,329 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Cowarts, AL?

2,038 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is up 102 (5.3%) from 1,936 in July 2020.

What county is Cowarts in?

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

What ZIP codes cover Cowarts?

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas overlap it by at least 10% of either area: 36303, 36321.

How far is Cowarts from Montgomery?

99.6 miles (160.3 km) in a straight line, heading NW from Cowarts.

What is the nearest larger city to Cowarts?

Ashford, AL, with 2,397 residents, 4.6 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.