Sylacauga, Alabama

Sylacauga population, 2020 to 2024

Sylacauga lost 421 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.4%. In the latest year it moved by -88. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 95th; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Sylacauga is 86% of it.

Sylacauga covers 20.25 square miles of land and 0.16 of water, for 599 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Sylacauga is less dense than the typical town.

What county Sylacauga is in

All of Sylacauga's residents live in Talladega County, which had 81,375 residents in 2024. Sylacauga holds 14.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sylacauga

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Sylacauga by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 35150, 35151. 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 Sylacauga is

The Census internal point of Sylacauga is at 33.188700, -86.274800. Montgomery, the capital, is 56.1 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Talladega, AL (14,693 people), 19.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Birmingham, AL, 38.2 miles away.

Daylight in Sylacauga

At 33.19° N, Sylacauga gets about 14 h 21 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 57 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 24 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sylacauga

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Childersburg, 8.1 miles away, with 4,612 people.