Rockmart, Georgia

Rockmart population, 2020 to 2024

Rockmart added 172 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +3.4%. In the latest year it moved by +23. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 81st; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Rockmart is 33% of it.

Rockmart covers 5.40 square miles of land and 0.07 of water, for 979 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Rockmart is less dense than the typical town.

What county Rockmart is in

All of Rockmart's residents live in Polk County, which had 44,610 residents in 2024. Rockmart holds 11.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rockmart

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Rockmart by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30153. 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 Rockmart is

The Census internal point of Rockmart is at 34.008300, -85.045000. Atlanta, the capital, is 41.7 miles ESE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Cedartown, GA (10,313 people), 11.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is South Fulton, GA, 37.0 miles away.

Daylight in Rockmart

At 34.01° N, Rockmart gets about 14 h 25 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 53 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 32 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rockmart

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Aragon, 2.7 miles away, with 1,503 people.