Auburn, Alabama
Auburn, Alabama | |
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Campus of Auburn University, downtown Auburn, one of Auburn's many biking and walking trails, and Auburn City Hall. | |
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Seal | |
| Motto: "The Loveliest Village On The Plains" | |
Location of Auburn in Lee County, Alabama. | |
| Coordinates: 32°36′30″N 85°30′05″W / 32.60833°N 85.50139°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Alabama |
| County | Lee |
| Founded | 1836 |
| Incorporated | February 2, 1839 |
| Government | |
| • Mayor | Ron Anders Jr. |
| Area | |
• City | 62.07 sq mi (160.77 km2) |
| • Land | 61.04 sq mi (158.09 km2) |
| • Water | 1.03 sq mi (2.67 km2) |
| Elevation | 696 ft (212 m) |
| Population (2020) | |
• City | 76,143 |
• Estimate (2022) | 80,006 |
| • Rank | US: 449th AL: 7th |
| • Density | 1,247.4/sq mi (481.63/km2) |
| • Urban | 100,842 (US: 310th) |
| • Metro | 199,289 (US: 231st) |
| Time zone | UTC-6 (Central (CST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-5 (CDT) |
| ZIP codes | 36830–36832, 36849 |
| Area code | 334 |
| FIPS code | 01-03076 |
| GNIS feature ID | 2403132 |
| Website | https://www.auburnal.gov/ |
Auburn is a city in Lee County, Alabama, United States. It is the largest city in eastern Alabama. The population was 76,143 at the 2020 census. It is a principal city of the Auburn-Opelika Metropolitan Area. The Auburn-Opelika, AL MSA with a 2020 population of 193,773, along with the Columbus, GA-AL MSA and Tuskegee, Alabama, comprises the greater Columbus-Auburn-Opelika, GA-AL CSA, a region home to 563,967 residents as of 2020.
Auburn is a historic college town and home to Auburn University, the highest academically ranked university in the state. It is Alabama's fastest-growing metropolitan area and the 19th-fastest-growing metro area in the United States as measured since 1990. U.S. News ranked Auburn among its top ten list of best places to live in the United States for the year 2009. The city's unofficial nickname is "The Loveliest Village on the Plains", taken from a line in the poem The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith: "Sweet Auburn! Loveliest village of the plain..."