Ellijay, Georgia

Ellijay population, 2020 to 2024

Ellijay added 104 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.7%. In the latest year it moved by -5.

Ellijay covers 3.59 square miles of land, for 536 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Ellijay is less dense than the typical town.

What county Ellijay is in

All of Ellijay's residents live in Gilmer County, which had 33,327 residents in 2024. Ellijay holds 5.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Ellijay

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Ellijay by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30540. 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 Ellijay is

The Census internal point of Ellijay is at 34.691400, -84.483500. Atlanta, the capital, is 65.3 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Jasper, GA (5,289 people), 15.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Chattanooga, TN, 50.5 miles away.

Daylight in Ellijay

At 34.69° N, Ellijay gets about 14 h 29 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 50 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 39 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Ellijay

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is East Ellijay, 1.9 miles away, with 1,625 people.