Clarkesville, Georgia

Clarkesville population, 2020 to 2024

Clarkesville added 264 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +13.9%. In the latest year it moved by +38.

Clarkesville covers 2.46 square miles of land and 0.03 of water, for 878 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Clarkesville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Clarkesville is in

All of Clarkesville's residents live in Habersham County, which had 49,665 residents in 2024. Clarkesville holds 4.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Clarkesville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Clarkesville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30523. 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 Clarkesville is

The Census internal point of Clarkesville is at 34.609300, -83.527500. Atlanta, the capital, is 77.2 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Demorest, GA (2,189 people), 3.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Athens-Clarke County, GA, 46.5 miles away.

Daylight in Clarkesville

At 34.61° N, Clarkesville gets about 14 h 29 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 50 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 39 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Clarkesville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Demorest, 3.3 miles away, with 2,189 people.