Cartersville, Georgia

Cartersville population, 2020 to 2024

Cartersville added 1,864 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +8.0%. In the latest year it moved by +161. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 51st; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Cartersville is 1.5 times that size.

Cartersville covers 28.70 square miles of land and 0.27 of water, for 874 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Cartersville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cartersville is in

All of Cartersville's residents live in Bartow County, which had 117,508 residents in 2024. Cartersville holds 21.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cartersville

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Cartersville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30120, 30121. 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 Cartersville is

The Census internal point of Cartersville is at 34.164600, -84.801700. Atlanta, the capital, is 37.2 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Kennesaw, GA (37,740 people), 14.2 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sandy Springs, GA, 29.6 miles away.

Daylight in Cartersville

At 34.16° N, Cartersville gets about 14 h 26 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 52 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 34 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cartersville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Emerson, 4.0 miles away, with 2,192 people.