Homewood, Alabama

Homewood population, 2020 to 2024

Homewood added 513 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.9%. In the latest year it moved by +94. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 52nd; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Homewood is 2.0 times that size.

Homewood covers 8.26 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 3,380 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Homewood is denser than the typical town.

What county Homewood is in

All of Homewood's residents live in Jefferson County, which had 664,744 residents in 2024. Homewood holds 4.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Homewood

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Homewood by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 35209, 35229. 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 Homewood is

The Census internal point of Homewood is at 33.458600, -86.809600. Montgomery, the capital, is 80.4 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Vestavia Hills, AL (38,151 people), 4.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Birmingham, AL, 4.8 miles away.

Daylight in Homewood

At 33.46° N, Homewood gets about 14 h 22 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 26 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Homewood

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Vestavia Hills, 4.0 miles away, with 38,151 people.