Roanoke, Alabama

Roanoke population, 2020 to 2024

Roanoke added 106 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.0%. In the latest year it moved by +45. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 49th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Roanoke is 38% of it.

Roanoke covers 18.74 square miles of land and 0.38 of water, for 289 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Roanoke is less dense than the typical town.

What county Roanoke is in

All of Roanoke's residents live in Randolph County, which had 23,067 residents in 2024. Roanoke holds 23.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Roanoke

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Roanoke by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 36274. 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 Roanoke is

The Census internal point of Roanoke is at 33.145300, -85.369500. Montgomery, the capital, is 75.8 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is LaGrange, GA (33,564 people), 20.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Columbus, GA, 52.4 miles away.

Daylight in Roanoke

At 33.15° N, Roanoke gets about 14 h 21 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 58 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 23 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Roanoke

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is La Fayette, 17.1 miles away, with 2,603 people.