Cairo, Georgia

Cairo population, 2020 to 2024

Cairo lost 116 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -1.1%. In the latest year it moved by +22. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 123rd; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Cairo is 62% of it.

Cairo covers 9.82 square miles of land and 0.13 of water, for 1,024 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Cairo is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cairo is in

All of Cairo's residents live in Grady County, which had 26,271 residents in 2024. Cairo holds 38.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cairo

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cairo by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 39828. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a city that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Cairo is

The Census internal point of Cairo is at 30.879200, -84.205500. Atlanta, the capital, is 198.6 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Thomasville, GA (18,604 people), 13.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tallahassee, FL, 29.5 miles away.

Daylight in Cairo

At 30.88° N, Cairo gets about 14 h 09 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 09 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 00 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cairo

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Thomasville, 13.7 miles away, with 18,604 people.