Huntsville, Alabama

Huntsville population, 2020 to 2024

Huntsville added 14,023 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.5%. In the latest year it moved by +4,174. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 28th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Huntsville is 16.3 times that size.

Huntsville covers 225.22 square miles of land and 1.54 of water, for 1,023 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Huntsville is denser than the typical town.

The 3 counties Huntsville spans

Huntsville crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 230,402 residents as follows; Madison County holds 97.8% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Huntsville

15 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Huntsville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 35741, 35756, 35757, 35763, 35801, 35802, 35803, 35805, 35806, 35808, 35810, 35811, 35816, 35824, 35896. 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 Huntsville is

The Census internal point of Huntsville is at 34.697700, -86.676700. Montgomery, the capital, is 161.8 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Nashville-Davidson, TN (704,963 people), 102.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Birmingham, AL, 81.2 miles away. The ground at the internal point is about 195 m (640 ft) above sea level.

Daylight in Huntsville

At 34.70° N, Huntsville gets about 14 h 29 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 50 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 39 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026. Month-by-month sunrise and sunset times are on the Huntsville daylight page.

Places near Huntsville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Madison, 4.9 miles away, with 64,029 people.