Cordele, Georgia

Cordele population, 2020 to 2024

Cordele lost 428 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.2%. In the latest year it moved by -127. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 144th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Cordele is 60% of it.

Cordele covers 10.43 square miles of land and 0.08 of water, for 936 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Cordele is less dense than the typical town.

What county Cordele is in

All of Cordele's residents live in Crisp County, which had 19,468 residents in 2024. Cordele holds 50.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cordele

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cordele by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 31015. 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 Cordele is

The Census internal point of Cordele is at 31.956100, -83.770100. Atlanta, the capital, is 129.0 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Americus, GA (15,742 people), 27.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Macon-Bibb County, GA, 59.1 miles away.

Daylight in Cordele

At 31.96° N, Cordele gets about 14 h 15 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 04 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 11 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cordele

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Vienna, 9.5 miles away, with 2,914 people.