Fort Payne, Alabama

Fort Payne population, 2020 to 2024

Fort Payne added 146 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.0%. In the latest year it moved by +64. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 59th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Fort Payne is 1.1 times that size.

Fort Payne covers 56.41 square miles of land and 0.35 of water, for 266 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Fort Payne is less dense than the typical town.

What county Fort Payne is in

All of Fort Payne's residents live in DeKalb County, which had 73,122 residents in 2024. Fort Payne holds 20.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fort Payne

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Fort Payne by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 35967, 35968. 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 Fort Payne is

The Census internal point of Fort Payne is at 34.457300, -85.689400. Montgomery, the capital, is 148.0 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Scottsboro, AL (15,957 people), 24.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chattanooga, TN, 49.0 miles away.

Daylight in Fort Payne

At 34.46° N, Fort Payne gets about 14 h 28 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 51 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 37 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fort Payne

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Rainsville, 8.8 miles away, with 5,931 people.