Roswell, Georgia

Roswell population, 2020 to 2024

Roswell lost 712 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.8%. In the latest year it moved by +90. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 122nd; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Roswell is 5.7 times that size.

Roswell covers 40.73 square miles of land and 1.27 of water, for 2,264 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Roswell is denser than the typical town.

What county Roswell is in

All of Roswell's residents live in Fulton County, which had 1,090,354 residents in 2024. Roswell holds 8.5% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Roswell

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Roswell by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30075, 30076. 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 Roswell is

The Census internal point of Roswell is at 34.039500, -84.350900. Atlanta, the capital, is 20.2 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Sandy Springs, GA (105,505 people), 7.5 miles away.

Daylight in Roswell

At 34.04° N, Roswell 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 32 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Roswell

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Alpharetta, 5.0 miles away, with 67,275 people.