Rome, Georgia

Rome population, 2020 to 2024

Rome added 873 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +2.3%. In the latest year it moved by +336. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 89th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Rome is 2.4 times that size.

Rome covers 31.84 square miles of land and 0.76 of water, for 1,217 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Rome is close to the typical town.

What county Rome is in

All of Rome's residents live in Floyd County, which had 101,390 residents in 2024. Rome holds 38.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Rome

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Rome by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30161, 30165. 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 Rome is

The Census internal point of Rome is at 34.266100, -85.186100. Atlanta, the capital, is 58.0 miles SE in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Woodstock, GA (39,381 people), 40.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Sandy Springs, GA, 52.1 miles away.

Daylight in Rome

At 34.27° N, Rome gets about 14 h 27 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 52 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 35 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Rome

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Cave Spring, 14.0 miles away, with 1,215 people.