Sheffield, Alabama

Sheffield population, 2020 to 2024

Sheffield lost 48 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.5%. In the latest year it moved by +24. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 71st; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Sheffield is 66% of it.

Sheffield covers 6.99 square miles of land and 0.12 of water, for 1,335 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Sheffield is denser than the typical town.

What county Sheffield is in

All of Sheffield's residents live in Colbert County, which had 58,785 residents in 2024. Sheffield holds 15.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sheffield

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sheffield by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 35660. 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 Sheffield is

The Census internal point of Sheffield is at 34.757000, -87.697100. Montgomery, the capital, is 183.1 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Muscle Shoals, AL (17,409 people), 3.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Huntsville, AL, 58.1 miles away.

Daylight in Sheffield

At 34.76° N, Sheffield gets about 14 h 29 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 49 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 40 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sheffield

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Tuscumbia, 2.7 miles away, with 9,222 people.