Rainsville, Alabama

Rainsville population, 2020 to 2024

Rainsville added 402 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.3%. In the latest year it moved by +159. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 26th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Rainsville is 42% of it.

Rainsville covers 20.73 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 286 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Rainsville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rainsville is in

All of Rainsville's residents live in DeKalb County, which had 73,122 residents in 2024. Rainsville holds 8.1% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rainsville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rainsville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 35986. 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 Rainsville is

The Census internal point of Rainsville is at 34.494400, -85.836500. Montgomery, the capital, is 148.7 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fort Payne, AL (15,017 people), 8.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Huntsville, AL, 49.8 miles away.

Daylight in Rainsville

At 34.49° N, Rainsville gets about 14 h 28 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 51 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 37 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rainsville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Sylvania, 5.0 miles away, with 1,824 people.