Jonesboro, Georgia

Jonesboro population, 2020 to 2024

Jonesboro added 123 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.1%. In the latest year it moved by -33. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 91st; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Jonesboro is 37% of it.

Jonesboro covers 2.99 square miles of land and 0.02 of water, for 2,035 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Jonesboro is denser than the typical town.

What county Jonesboro is in

All of Jonesboro's residents live in Clayton County, which had 297,703 residents in 2024. Jonesboro holds 2.0% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Jonesboro

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Jonesboro by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30236. 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 Jonesboro is

The Census internal point of Jonesboro is at 33.520800, -84.354700. Atlanta, the capital, is 15.9 miles N in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Morrow, GA (6,262 people), 4.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is South Fulton, GA, 15.3 miles away.

Daylight in Jonesboro

At 33.52° N, Jonesboro 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 Jonesboro

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Morrow, 4.1 miles away, with 6,262 people.