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Chambers County, Alabama

A county in Alabama, ranked 34 of 67 by population.

CountyFIPS 01017

Within Alabama
Chambers County, highlighted, with the areas around it. Boundaries generalised from the 2025 Census cartographic boundary file; neighbour fills carry no data.

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Population
34,253
-328 (-0.9%) since 2020
Land area
596.6
square miles. A further 1.1% of the total area is water
Population density
57.4
people per square mile, computed rather than published
County seat
LaFayette
Seat of county government.
Established
1832
193 years ago
Largest city
Valley city
Population 10,294.

Sources: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026; US Census Bureau, Gazetteer Files, 2025 Gazetteer Files, released 10 September 2025; Wikidata (CC0), Wikidata. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

Satellite view

Aerial imagery of Chambers County with its boundary drawn on top. A map shows you the shape; this shows you what is inside it, and which side of the line a place falls on.

Aerial view of Chambers County, Alabama from the USGS National Map, with its boundary outlined
Imagery: USGS National Map, USGS Imagery Only, public domain, requested from USGS by your browser when you reach this point on the page, at 800 by 772 pixels. The boundary is the 2025 Census cartographic boundary file, reprojected to Web Mercator to match the imagery. You can also open the USGS National Map viewer.

Where Chambers County ranks

Position among the 67 counties of Alabama, and among all 3,144 US counties and county-equivalents. Computed from the figures on this page.

MeasureValueIn AlabamaNationally
Population34,25334th of 671,333rd of 3,144
Land area596.6 sq mi54th of 671,640th of 3,144
Population density57.4 per sq mi29th of 671,346th of 3,144
Median household income$49,65646th of 672,789th of 3,143

Full data for Chambers County

Every figure below is attributed to the Census Bureau product it came from, with the vintage of that product.
MeasureValueSource and vintage
Population34,253Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
Population in 202034,581Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
2020 estimates base?34,696Vintage 2025 Population Estimates
Land area596.6 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Water area6.6 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Total area603.1 sq mi2025 Gazetteer Files
Population density?57.4 per sq miComputed: Vintage 2025 estimates divided by 2025 Gazetteer land area
Median household income$49,656American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Median home value$135,800American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Median age41.3American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Households13,434American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates
Housing units16,435American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates

Sources: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026; US Census Bureau, Gazetteer Files, 2025 Gazetteer Files, released 10 September 2025; US Census Bureau, American Community Survey, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates, released 29 January 2026. Population density is computed here, not published: it divides the Vintage 2025 population estimate by the 2025 Gazetteer land area, which are two different Census products. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

How the population changed

The Census Bureau publishes the components behind an estimate, not just the total. For the year to July 2025:

Births minus deaths
-98
402 births, 500 deaths
Net migration
+40
More people moved in than moved out.

Source: US Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, Vintage 2025 Population Estimates, released 26 March 2026. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

The 5 areas bordering Chambers County

Ordered by the length of the border actually shared, which the Census Bureau publishes in its county adjacency file and which no other county reference presents.

Bordering areaStateShared borderPopulation
Lee CountyAlabama32 mi189,881
Tallapoosa CountyAlabama26 mi40,953
Randolph CountyAlabama21 mi23,163
Troup CountyGeorgia17 mi72,844
Harris CountyGeorgia13 mi37,280

Source: US Census Bureau, County Adjacency File, 2025 County Adjacency File, released 15 September 2025. Retrieved 30 August 2026.

All 67 counties of Alabama

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Data on this page last rebuilt 30 August 2026. How these figures are produced.