Guntersville, Alabama

Guntersville population, 2020 to 2024

Guntersville added 653 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.6%. In the latest year it moved by +192. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 24th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Guntersville is 66% of it.

Guntersville covers 25.64 square miles of land and 17.06 of water, for 360 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Guntersville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Guntersville is in

All of Guntersville's residents live in Marshall County, which had 102,156 residents in 2024. Guntersville holds 9.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Guntersville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Guntersville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 35976. 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 Guntersville is

The Census internal point of Guntersville is at 34.367900, -86.252300. Montgomery, the capital, is 137.6 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Albertville, AL (23,392 people), 7.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Huntsville, AL, 33.2 miles away.

Daylight in Guntersville

At 34.37° N, Guntersville gets about 14 h 27 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 51 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 36 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Guntersville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Albertville, 7.6 miles away, with 23,392 people.