Greenville, Alabama

Greenville population, 2020 to 2024

Greenville lost 378 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -5.1%. In the latest year it moved by -45. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 104th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Greenville is 50% of it.

Greenville covers 21.35 square miles of land and 0.18 of water, for 327 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Greenville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Greenville is in

All of Greenville's residents live in Butler County, which had 18,256 residents in 2024. Greenville holds 38.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Greenville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Greenville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 36037. 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 Greenville is

The Census internal point of Greenville is at 31.843100, -86.637000. Montgomery, the capital, is 41.8 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Andalusia, AL (8,728 people), 38.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Montgomery, AL, 41.1 miles away.

Daylight in Greenville

At 31.84° N, Greenville gets about 14 h 14 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 10 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Greenville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Fort Deposit, 10.7 miles away, with 1,122 people.