Fairhope, Alabama

Fairhope population, 2020 to 2024

Fairhope added 3,336 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +14.7%. In the latest year it moved by +1,011. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 8th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Fairhope is 1.8 times that size.

Fairhope covers 14.83 square miles of land and 0.06 of water, for 1,756 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Fairhope is denser than the typical town.

What county Fairhope is in

All of Fairhope's residents live in Baldwin County, which had 261,608 residents in 2024. Fairhope holds 10.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fairhope

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Fairhope by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 36532, 36559. 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 Fairhope is

The Census internal point of Fairhope is at 30.520900, -87.879100. Montgomery, the capital, is 158.5 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Daphne, AL (30,751 people), 7.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Mobile, AL, 17.0 miles away.

Daylight in Fairhope

At 30.52° N, Fairhope gets about 14 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 10 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 57 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fairhope

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Daphne, 7.4 miles away, with 30,751 people.