Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Muscle Shoals population, 2020 to 2024

Muscle Shoals added 1,036 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +6.3%. In the latest year it moved by +166. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 29th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Muscle Shoals is 1.2 times that size.

Muscle Shoals covers 16.87 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,032 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Muscle Shoals is denser than the typical town.

What county Muscle Shoals is in

All of Muscle Shoals's residents live in Colbert County, which had 58,785 residents in 2024. Muscle Shoals holds 29.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Muscle Shoals

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Muscle Shoals by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 35661, 35674. 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 Muscle Shoals is

The Census internal point of Muscle Shoals is at 34.742700, -87.633800. Montgomery, the capital, is 180.6 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Florence, AL (42,716 people), 6.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Huntsville, AL, 54.4 miles away.

Daylight in Muscle Shoals

At 34.74° N, Muscle Shoals gets about 14 h 29 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 49 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 40 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Muscle Shoals

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Sheffield, 3.7 miles away, with 9,335 people.