Hiawassee, Georgia

Hiawassee population, 2020 to 2024

Hiawassee added 51 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +5.1%. In the latest year it moved by +38.

Hiawassee covers 1.63 square miles of land and 0.45 of water, for 642 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Hiawassee is less dense than the typical town.

What county Hiawassee is in

All of Hiawassee's residents live in Towns County, which had 13,184 residents in 2024. Hiawassee holds 7.9% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Hiawassee

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Hiawassee by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30546. 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 Hiawassee is

The Census internal point of Hiawassee is at 34.946200, -83.746300. Atlanta, the capital, is 90.5 miles SSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Andrews, NC (1,762 people), 18.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Knoxville, TN, 71.7 miles away.

Daylight in Hiawassee

At 34.95° N, Hiawassee gets about 14 h 31 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 48 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 42 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Hiawassee

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Clayton, 20.0 miles away, with 2,090 people.