Sandersville, Georgia

Sandersville population, 2020 to 2024

Sandersville lost 282 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -4.9%. In the latest year it moved by -50. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 146th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Sandersville is 34% of it.

Sandersville covers 12.57 square miles of land and 0.16 of water, for 438 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Sandersville is less dense than the typical town.

What county Sandersville is in

All of Sandersville's residents live in Washington County, which had 19,834 residents in 2024. Sandersville holds 27.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sandersville

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sandersville by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 31082. 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 Sandersville is

The Census internal point of Sandersville is at 32.981800, -82.805100. Atlanta, the capital, is 105.6 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Milledgeville, GA (16,664 people), 26.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Augusta-Richmond County, GA, 50.0 miles away.

Daylight in Sandersville

At 32.98° N, Sandersville gets about 14 h 20 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 58 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 21 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sandersville

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Tennille, 3.1 miles away, with 1,846 people.