Rainbow City, Alabama

Rainbow City population, 2020 to 2024

Rainbow City added 137 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.3%. In the latest year it moved by +5. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 58th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Rainbow City is 73% of it.

Rainbow City covers 25.65 square miles of land and 0.34 of water, for 403 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Rainbow City is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rainbow City is in

All of Rainbow City's residents live in Etowah County, which had 103,207 residents in 2024. Rainbow City holds 10.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rainbow City

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rainbow City by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 35906. 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 Rainbow City is

The Census internal point of Rainbow City is at 33.928800, -86.084200. Montgomery, the capital, is 107.9 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Gadsden, AL (33,086 people), 6.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Birmingham, AL, 49.5 miles away.

Daylight in Rainbow City

At 33.93° N, Rainbow City gets about 14 h 25 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 54 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 31 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rainbow City

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Attalla, 4.5 miles away, with 5,746 people.