Cornelia, Georgia

Cornelia population, 2020 to 2024

Cornelia added 835 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +18.4%. In the latest year it moved by +49. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 18th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Cornelia is 33% of it.

Cornelia covers 4.15 square miles of land and 0.05 of water, for 1,294 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Cornelia is close to the typical town.

What county Cornelia is in

All of Cornelia's residents live in Habersham County, which had 49,665 residents in 2024. Cornelia holds 10.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Cornelia

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Cornelia by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30531. 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 Cornelia is

The Census internal point of Cornelia is at 34.516600, -83.531500. Atlanta, the capital, is 72.2 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Toccoa, GA (9,389 people), 12.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Athens-Clarke County, GA, 40.3 miles away.

Daylight in Cornelia

At 34.52° N, Cornelia gets about 14 h 28 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 51 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 38 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Cornelia

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Baldwin, 1.4 miles away, with 4,217 people.