Palmetto, Georgia

Palmetto population, 2020 to 2024

Palmetto added 123 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.4%. In the latest year it moved by +164. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 87th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Palmetto is 32% of it.

Palmetto covers 11.84 square miles of land and 0.19 of water, for 440 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Palmetto is less dense than the typical town.

The 2 counties Palmetto spans

Palmetto crosses county lines. The Census county-part estimates split its 5,213 residents as follows; Fulton County holds 88.4% of them. The shaded shapes are on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Palmetto

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Palmetto by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30268. 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 Palmetto is

The Census internal point of Palmetto is at 33.536000, -84.673800. Atlanta, the capital, is 22.1 miles NE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Fairburn, GA (17,267 people), 5.0 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is South Fulton, GA, 8.6 miles away.

Daylight in Palmetto

At 33.54° N, Palmetto 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 Palmetto

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Fairburn, 5.0 miles away, with 17,267 people.