Fayetteville, Georgia

Fayetteville population, 2020 to 2024

Fayetteville added 1,404 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +7.4%. In the latest year it moved by +282. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 54th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Fayetteville is 1.3 times that size.

Fayetteville covers 12.96 square miles of land and 0.22 of water, for 1,576 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Fayetteville is denser than the typical town.

What county Fayetteville is in

All of Fayetteville's residents live in Fayette County, which had 125,107 residents in 2024. Fayetteville holds 16.3% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fayetteville

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Fayetteville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30214, 30215. 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 Fayetteville is

The Census internal point of Fayetteville is at 33.449100, -84.472800. Atlanta, the capital, is 21.3 miles NNE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Peachtree City, GA (40,758 people), 6.9 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is South Fulton, GA, 14.4 miles away.

Daylight in Fayetteville

At 33.45° N, Fayetteville gets about 14 h 22 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 56 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 26 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fayetteville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Peachtree City, 6.9 miles away, with 40,758 people.