Oxford, Alabama

Oxford population, 2020 to 2024

Oxford added 1 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.0%. In the latest year it moved by +11. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 70th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Oxford is 1.6 times that size.

Oxford covers 31.91 square miles of land and 0.36 of water, for 692 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Oxford is close to the typical town.

The 2 counties Oxford spans

Oxford crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 22,088 residents as follows; Calhoun County holds 79.8% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Oxford

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Oxford by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 36203, 36260. 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 Oxford is

The Census internal point of Oxford is at 33.596400, -85.868200. Montgomery, the capital, is 87.9 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Gadsden, AL (33,086 people), 29.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Birmingham, AL, 53.7 miles away.

Daylight in Oxford

At 33.60° N, Oxford gets about 14 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Oxford

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Anniston, 6.3 miles away, with 21,127 people.