Alabama · Census place 0174976

Tarrant, Alabama

Tarrant is a city in Jefferson County, Alabama with an estimated 5,806 residents on July 1, 2024. It is the 97th largest of 257 incorporated places of 1,000+ people in the state.

Population 2024
5,806
#97 of 257 in Alabama
Change since 2020
-4.9%
-299 people
Land area
6.4 sq mi
+ 0.05 sq mi water
Density
911 / sq mi
State median 715
Orange pin: Tarrant. Shaded: its county. Dark pin: Montgomery.

Tarrant population, 2020 to 2024

Tarrant lost 299 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.9%. In the latest year it moved by -31. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 103rd; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Tarrant is 41% of it.

6,10520206,00320215,90320225,83720235,8062024
July 1 estimates. The April 2020 estimates base was 6,122. The axis starts above zero so yearly changes are visible.

Tarrant covers 6.37 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 911 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Tarrant is denser than the typical town.

What county Tarrant is in

All of Tarrant's residents live in Jefferson County, which had 664,744 residents in 2024. Tarrant holds 0.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Tarrant

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Tarrant by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 35217. 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 Tarrant is

The Census internal point of Tarrant is at 33.592900, -86.766300. Montgomery, the capital, is 88.3 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fultondale, AL (9,325 people), 2.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Birmingham, AL, 4.8 miles away.

Internal point

Decimal
33.592900, -86.766300
DMS
33°35'34.44"N 86°45'58.68"W
UTM
16N 521684.1E 3717043.5N
Geohash
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Plus code
865MH6VM+5F

Daylight in Tarrant

At 33.59° N, Tarrant gets about 14 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Tarrant

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Fultondale, 2.6 miles away, with 9,325 people.

Questions people ask

What is the population of Tarrant, AL?

5,806 on July 1, 2024, in the Census Vintage 2024 estimates. That is down 299 (4.9%) from 6,105 in July 2020.

What county is Tarrant in?

Jefferson County. All of its residents live in that county.

What ZIP codes cover Tarrant?

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area overlaps it by at least 10% of either area: 35217.

How far is Tarrant from Montgomery?

88.3 miles (142.0 km) in a straight line, heading SSE from Tarrant.

What is the nearest larger city to Tarrant?

Fultondale, AL, with 9,325 residents, 2.6 miles away between internal points.

Sources and data as of

Data as of: Census Vintage 2024 subcounty estimates (July 1, 2024), 2024 Gazetteer places, 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file.

  1. 01Census Vintage 2024 subcounty population estimates
  2. 02Census 2024 Gazetteer, places
  3. 03Census 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file
  4. 04Census 2024 cartographic boundary file, counties (1:5,000,000)

How every number is computed: methodology. Spotted a wrong figure? Report an error.