Covington, Georgia

Covington population, 2020 to 2024

Covington added 1,063 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.5%. In the latest year it moved by +587. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 53rd; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Covington is 94% of it.

Covington covers 15.84 square miles of land and 0.24 of water, for 966 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Covington is less dense than the typical town.

What county Covington is in

All of Covington's residents live in Newton County, which had 124,010 residents in 2024. Covington holds 12.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Covington

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Covington by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30014. 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 Covington is

The Census internal point of Covington is at 33.605400, -83.846600. Atlanta, the capital, is 32.7 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Conyers, GA (20,111 people), 8.7 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Atlanta, GA, 34.9 miles away.

Daylight in Covington

At 33.61° N, Covington gets about 14 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 55 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 28 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Covington

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Oxford, 2.2 miles away, with 2,310 people.