Pell City, Alabama

Pell City population, 2020 to 2024

Pell City added 1,121 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.6%. In the latest year it moved by +199. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 22nd; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Pell City is 1.0 times that size.

Pell City covers 25.00 square miles of land and 2.76 of water, for 564 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Pell City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Pell City is in

All of Pell City's residents live in St. Clair County, which had 96,927 residents in 2024. Pell City holds 14.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pell City

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Pell City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 35125, 35128. 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 Pell City is

The Census internal point of Pell City is at 33.560300, -86.263600. Montgomery, the capital, is 81.8 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Talladega, AL (14,693 people), 13.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Birmingham, AL, 30.8 miles away.

Daylight in Pell City

At 33.56° N, Pell City gets about 14 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Pell City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Riverside, 5.2 miles away, with 2,304 people.