Jacksonville, Alabama

Jacksonville population, 2020 to 2024

Jacksonville added 350 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.4%. In the latest year it moved by -26. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 48th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Jacksonville is 1.0 times that size.

Jacksonville covers 10.91 square miles of land, for 1,343 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Jacksonville is denser than the typical town.

What county Jacksonville is in

All of Jacksonville's residents live in Calhoun County, which had 116,427 residents in 2024. Jacksonville holds 12.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Jacksonville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Jacksonville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 36265. 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 Jacksonville is

The Census internal point of Jacksonville is at 33.810100, -85.755200. Montgomery, the capital, is 103.9 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Anniston, AL (21,127 people), 9.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Birmingham, AL, 63.0 miles away.

Daylight in Jacksonville

At 33.81° N, Jacksonville gets about 14 h 24 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 54 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 30 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Jacksonville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Weaver, 4.7 miles away, with 3,317 people.