Fairburn, Georgia

Fairburn population, 2020 to 2024

Fairburn added 704 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +4.3%. In the latest year it moved by +531. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 71st; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Fairburn is 1.1 times that size.

Fairburn covers 16.86 square miles of land and 0.21 of water, for 1,024 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Fairburn is less dense than the typical town.

What county Fairburn is in

All of Fairburn's residents live in Fulton County, which had 1,090,354 residents in 2024. Fairburn holds 1.6% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fairburn

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Fairburn by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30213, 30268. 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 Fairburn is

The Census internal point of Fairburn is at 33.547800, -84.587300. Atlanta, the capital, is 18.0 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Union City, GA (28,195 people), 3.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is South Fulton, GA, 6.1 miles away.

Daylight in Fairburn

At 33.55° N, Fairburn gets about 14 h 23 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 27 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fairburn

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Union City, 3.5 miles away, with 28,195 people.