Foley, Alabama

Foley population, 2020 to 2024

Foley added 7,158 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +34.3%. In the latest year it moved by +3,012. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 2nd; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Foley is 2.0 times that size.

Foley covers 35.25 square miles of land and 0.15 of water, for 796 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Foley is denser than the typical town.

What county Foley is in

All of Foley's residents live in Baldwin County, which had 261,608 residents in 2024. Foley holds 10.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Foley

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Foley by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 36535, 36580. 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 Foley is

The Census internal point of Foley is at 30.397100, -87.668500. Montgomery, the capital, is 158.8 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Daphne, AL (30,751 people), 20.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Mobile, AL, 32.2 miles away.

Daylight in Foley

At 30.40° N, Foley gets about 14 h 07 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 11 min around the December solstice, a swing of 3 h 56 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Foley

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Elberta, 4.6 miles away, with 2,147 people.