Saraland, Alabama

Saraland population, 2020 to 2024

Saraland added 219 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.3%. In the latest year it moved by +4. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 57th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Saraland is 1.2 times that size.

Saraland covers 34.19 square miles of land and 0.22 of water, for 481 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Saraland is less dense than the typical town.

What county Saraland is in

All of Saraland's residents live in Mobile County, which had 412,339 residents in 2024. Saraland holds 4.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Saraland

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Saraland by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 36571. 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 Saraland is

The Census internal point of Saraland is at 30.854600, -88.109800. Montgomery, the capital, is 149.7 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Prichard, AL (18,778 people), 5.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Mobile, AL, 12.9 miles away.

Daylight in Saraland

At 30.85° N, Saraland gets about 14 h 09 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 09 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 00 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Saraland

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Satsuma, 2.8 miles away, with 6,874 people.