Pinson is a city in Jefferson County near Birmingham, Alabama, United States, northwest of Center Point.

Pinson is home to the Turkey Creek Nature Preserve and the Alabama Butterbean Festival.

The Palmerdale Homesteads are located within the city limits of Pinson.

The Palmerdale Homesteads were the first of five farmers' resettlement communities built in Alabama under President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal in the 1930s.

Note: Census demographic data were enumerated for the Census-Designated Place (CDP) for somewhat different boundaries prior to incorporation in 2004.

The 1990 population of 10,987 was for the CDP of Pinson-Clay-Chalkville,[9] which was subdivided in 2000 into their own separate CDPs.

[10] Therefore, exact population for the Pinson portion in 1990 cannot be ascertained As of the 2020 United States census, there were 7,215 people, 2,711 households, and 1,997 families residing in the city.

There were 2,948 housing units at an average density of 421.1 per square mile (162.6/km2).

There were 1,953 housing units at an average density of 279.8 per square mile (108.0/km2).