Milton, Georgia

Milton population, 2020 to 2024

Milton added 92 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +0.2%. In the latest year it moved by -100. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 115th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Milton is 2.6 times that size.

Milton covers 38.59 square miles of land and 0.60 of water, for 1,075 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Milton is less dense than the typical town.

What county Milton is in

All of Milton's residents live in Fulton County, which had 1,090,354 residents in 2024. Milton holds 3.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Milton

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Milton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30004, 30009. 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 Milton is

The Census internal point of Milton is at 34.144300, -84.314200. Atlanta, the capital, is 27.6 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Alpharetta, GA (67,275 people), 5.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sandy Springs, GA, 15.0 miles away.

Daylight in Milton

At 34.14° N, Milton gets about 14 h 26 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 53 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 34 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Milton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Alpharetta, 5.6 miles away, with 67,275 people.