Dalton, Georgia

Dalton population, 2020 to 2024

Dalton added 546 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.6%. In the latest year it moved by +315. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 96th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Dalton is 2.2 times that size.

Dalton covers 21.31 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,641 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Dalton is denser than the typical town.

What county Dalton is in

All of Dalton's residents live in Whitfield County, which had 105,070 residents in 2024. Dalton holds 33.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Dalton

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Dalton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30720, 30721. 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 Dalton is

The Census internal point of Dalton is at 34.767900, -84.972800. Atlanta, the capital, is 77.9 miles SSE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Chattanooga, TN (191,496 people), 25.8 miles away.

Daylight in Dalton

At 34.77° N, Dalton gets about 14 h 30 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 49 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 40 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Dalton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Varnell, 9.2 miles away, with 2,289 people.