Fort Valley, Georgia

Fort Valley population, 2020 to 2024

Fort Valley added 230 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.6%. In the latest year it moved by +146. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 85th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Fort Valley is 56% of it.

Fort Valley covers 7.54 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 1,197 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Fort Valley is close to the typical town.

What county Fort Valley is in

All of Fort Valley's residents live in Peach County, which had 29,213 residents in 2024. Fort Valley holds 30.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Fort Valley

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Fort Valley by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 31030. 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 Fort Valley is

The Census internal point of Fort Valley is at 32.551100, -83.879900. Atlanta, the capital, is 87.8 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Perry, GA (24,792 people), 10.4 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Macon-Bibb County, GA, 20.8 miles away.

Daylight in Fort Valley

At 32.55° N, Fort Valley gets about 14 h 18 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 01 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 17 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Fort Valley

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Byron, 10.3 miles away, with 6,305 people.