Scottsboro, Alabama

Scottsboro population, 2020 to 2024

Scottsboro added 382 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.5%. In the latest year it moved by +115. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 47th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Scottsboro is 1.1 times that size.

Scottsboro covers 50.65 square miles of land and 6.76 of water, for 315 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Scottsboro is less dense than the typical town.

What county Scottsboro is in

All of Scottsboro's residents live in Jackson County, which had 53,780 residents in 2024. Scottsboro holds 29.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Scottsboro

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Scottsboro by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 35768, 35769. 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 Scottsboro is

The Census internal point of Scottsboro is at 34.644600, -86.048200. Montgomery, the capital, is 157.3 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Albertville, AL (23,392 people), 28.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Huntsville, AL, 35.9 miles away.

Daylight in Scottsboro

At 34.64° N, Scottsboro gets about 14 h 29 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 50 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 39 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Scottsboro

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Grant, 14.9 miles away, with 1,062 people.