Locust Grove, Georgia

Locust Grove population, 2020 to 2024

Locust Grove added 2,562 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +27.9%. In the latest year it moved by +533. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 8th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Locust Grove is 72% of it.

Locust Grove covers 12.34 square miles of land and 0.19 of water, for 952 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Locust Grove is less dense than the typical town.

What county Locust Grove is in

All of Locust Grove's residents live in Henry County, which had 259,315 residents in 2024. Locust Grove holds 4.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Locust Grove

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Locust Grove by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30248. 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 Locust Grove is

The Census internal point of Locust Grove is at 33.348100, -84.102500. Atlanta, the capital, is 32.2 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is McDonough, GA (32,803 people), 7.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Atlanta, GA, 34.1 miles away.

Daylight in Locust Grove

At 33.35° N, Locust Grove gets about 14 h 22 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 57 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 25 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Locust Grove

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is McDonough, 7.1 miles away, with 32,803 people.