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Decatur population

55,437people · latest figure

By James Burfield, SEO consultant, Bath · Page updated · GeoNames · World Gazetteer 2005

Decatur has a population of 55,437, making it the 766th largest place we list in United States. It is in Alabama.

Decatur holds under a tenth of one per cent of United States's 349,035,494 people. New York City, the largest place we list there, is 159 times its size. Twenty years earlier the World Gazetteer recorded 77,868, a fall of 29%.

55,437
population
77,868
in 2005
-28.8%
since 2005
The 2005 figure comes from the World Gazetteer archive restored on this site. The two sources may draw the settlement's boundary differently, so treat the change as indicative rather than exact. Why figures differ.

Decatur is in Alabama, which has 423 recorded places.

Nearby in size

PlaceRegionPopulation
KetteringOhio55,525
BellevueNebraska55,510
ShorelineWashington55,439
ParamountCalifornia55,412
Port ArthurTexas55,340
AbingtonPennsylvania55,310

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Figures are the latest available in GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), which draws on national censuses of varying dates — treat them as recent, not same-year. Country totals are UN World Population Prospects 2024 (medium variant) where the UN lists the country separately; the handful it reports under a parent state keep a GeoNames figure and are marked as such. Sources & method.