Alabama · Census place 0161008

Pleasant Grove, Alabama

Pleasant Grove is a city in Jefferson County, Alabama with an estimated 9,375 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 69th largest of 257 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
9,375
#69 of 257 in Alabama
Change since 2020
-1.7%
-162 people
Land area
9.8 sq mi
Density
955 / sq mi
State median 715
Orange pin: Pleasant Grove. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Montgomery.

Pleasant Grove population, 2020 to 2024

Pleasant Grove lost 162 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.7%. In the latest year it moved by -26. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 79th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Pleasant Grove is 67% of it.

9,53720209,47620219,43820229,40120239,3752024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 9,545. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Pleasant Grove covers 9.82 square miles of land, for 955 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Pleasant Grove is denser than the typical town.

What county Pleasant Grove is in

All of Pleasant Grove's residents live in Jefferson County, which had 664,744 residents in 2024. Pleasant Grove holds 1.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Pleasant Grove

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Pleasant Grove by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 35127. 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 Pleasant Grove is

The Census internal point of Pleasant Grove is at 33.494000, -86.978100. Montgomery, the capital, is 86.6 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fairfield, AL (9,524 people), 3.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Birmingham, AL, 10.7 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
33.494000, -86.978100
DMS
33°29'38.40"N 86°58'41.16"W
UTM
16N 502034.3E 3706054.2N
Geohash
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Plus code
865MF2VC+JQ

Daylight in Pleasant Grove

At 33.49° N, Pleasant Grove 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 Pleasant Grove

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Fairfield, 3.6 miles away, with 9,524 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Pleasant Grove, AL?

9,375 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 162 (1.7%) from 9,537 in July 2020.

What county is Pleasant Grove in?

Jefferson County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Pleasant Grove?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 35127.

How far is Pleasant Grove from Montgomery?

86.6 miles (139.4 km) in a straight line, heading SSE from Pleasant Grove.

What is the nearest larger city to Pleasant Grove?

Fairfield, AL, with 9,524 residents, 3.6 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.