Leeds

Also known as Leeds, Alabama, Leeds, AL

city in Jefferson, St. Clair, and Shelby counties in Alabama, United States

Key facts

Country: United States
State: Alabama
Counties: Jefferson , St. Clair , Shelby
Type: Mayor-Council Government
Mayor: Eddie Moore (N/A)
Total: 22.99 sq mi (59.55 km )
Land: 22.76 sq mi (58.95 km )
Water: 0.23 sq mi (0.60 km )
Elevation: 673 ft (205 m)
Density: 541.5/sq mi (209.07/km )
Time zone: UTC-6 ( Central (CST) )
Summer dst: UTC-5 (CDT)
Area codes: 205 & 659
Fips code: 01-41968
Website: leedsalabama .org

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Leeds
Population: 12324
Area: 59.783715
Elevation: 191
Official website: www.leedsalabama.org
Households: 4613
Dialing code: 205

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postal code: 35094
Commons category: Leeds, Alabama
inception: 1887-00-00
water as percent of area: 0.9499
P8168: Fresnel
water area: 0.567877
per capita income: 30513
mean age: 37.1

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Leeds is a tricounty municipality in Jefferson, St. Clair, and Shelby counties in the U.S. state of Alabama; it is an eastern suburb of Birmingham. As of the 2020 census, its population was 12,324.

Leeds was founded in 1877, during the final years of the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era. It housed the workers and their families of Lehigh, a Portland cement manufacturing plant.