Elba, Alabama

Elba population, 2020 to 2024

Elba added 75 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.2%. In the latest year it moved by +11.

Elba covers 15.34 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 230 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Elba is less dense than the typical town.

What county Elba is in

All of Elba's residents live in Coffee County, which had 56,358 residents in 2024. Elba holds 6.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Elba

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Elba by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 36323. 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 Elba is

The Census internal point of Elba is at 31.417200, -86.077100. Montgomery, the capital, is 67.6 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Opp, AL (6,706 people), 14.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Montgomery, AL, 65.3 miles away.

Daylight in Elba

At 31.42° N, Elba gets about 14 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 06 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 06 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Elba

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is New Brockton, 9.7 miles away, with 1,512 people.