Valley, Alabama

Valley population, 2020 to 2024

Valley lost 282 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -2.7%. In the latest year it moved by -84. Among 107 Alabama places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 91st; the median place changed by +1.7%. The median place of 5,000+ in Alabama has 14,094 people, so Valley is 72% of it.

Valley covers 12.89 square miles of land, for 787 people per square mile of land. The median Alabama place of 5,000+ has 715, so Valley is denser than the typical town.

What county Valley is in

All of Valley's residents live in Chambers County, which had 33,813 residents in 2024. Valley holds 30.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Valley

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Valley by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 36854. 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 Valley is

The Census internal point of Valley is at 32.801400, -85.204400. Montgomery, the capital, is 70.2 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Opelika, AL (35,005 people), 14.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Columbus, GA, 27.8 miles away.

Daylight in Valley

At 32.80° N, Valley gets about 14 h 19 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 59 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 20 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Valley

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Alabama, measured between internal points. The closest is Lanett, 4.0 miles away, with 6,704 people.