Commerce, Georgia

Commerce population, 2020 to 2024

Commerce added 1,301 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +17.3%. In the latest year it moved by +492. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 20th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Commerce is 54% of it.

Commerce covers 13.47 square miles of land and 0.13 of water, for 654 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Commerce is less dense than the typical town.

What county Commerce is in

All of Commerce's residents live in Jackson County, which had 93,825 residents in 2024. Commerce holds 9.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Commerce

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Commerce by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30529. 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 Commerce is

The Census internal point of Commerce is at 34.214300, -83.475700. Atlanta, the capital, is 61.4 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Jefferson, GA (16,459 people), 9.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Athens-Clarke County, GA, 19.3 miles away.

Daylight in Commerce

At 34.21° N, Commerce gets about 14 h 27 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 Commerce

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Maysville, 5.2 miles away, with 2,240 people.