Gainesville, Georgia

Gainesville population, 2020 to 2024

Gainesville added 5,510 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +13.1%. In the latest year it moved by +563. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 34th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Gainesville is 2.9 times that size.

Gainesville covers 33.81 square miles of land and 1.95 of water, for 1,411 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Gainesville is denser than the typical town.

What county Gainesville is in

All of Gainesville's residents live in Hall County, which had 221,745 residents in 2024. Gainesville holds 21.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Gainesville

3 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Gainesville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30501, 30504, 30507. 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 Gainesville is

The Census internal point of Gainesville is at 34.290100, -83.829100. Atlanta, the capital, is 49.2 miles SW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Johns Creek, GA (81,167 people), 27.8 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Athens-Clarke County, GA, 35.2 miles away.

Daylight in Gainesville

At 34.29° N, Gainesville gets about 14 h 27 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 52 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 35 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Gainesville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Oakwood, 5.7 miles away, with 6,759 people.