Pelham, Alabama

Pelham population, 2020 to 2024

Pelham added 1,151 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.7%. In the latest year it moved by +234. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 38th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Pelham is 1.8 times that size.

Pelham covers 38.78 square miles of land and 0.50 of water, for 655 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Pelham is close to the typical town.

What county Pelham is in

All of Pelham's residents live in Shelby County, which had 235,969 residents in 2024. Pelham holds 10.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pelham

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Pelham by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 35124. 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 Pelham is

The Census internal point of Pelham is at 33.321800, -86.742200. Montgomery, the capital, is 70.1 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Hoover, AL (93,013 people), 5.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Birmingham, AL, 14.5 miles away.

Daylight in Pelham

At 33.32° N, Pelham gets about 14 h 22 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 57 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 25 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pelham

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Indian Springs Village, 2.7 miles away, with 2,551 people.