Langston is a town in Jackson County, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Chattanooga-Cleveland-Dalton, TN-GA-AL Combined Statistical Area. In the 2010 census, the population was 270, up from 254. It initially incorporated in 1899. At some point after 1920 it disincorporated, then reincorporated in 1980. Its peak population was 500, in 1920.