Sylvester, Georgia

Sylvester population, 2020 to 2024

Sylvester lost 200 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -3.6%. In the latest year it moved by -18. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 141st; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Sylvester is 33% of it.

Sylvester covers 6.57 square miles of land and 0.04 of water, for 824 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Sylvester is less dense than the typical town.

What county Sylvester is in

All of Sylvester's residents live in Worth County, which had 20,262 residents in 2024. Sylvester holds 26.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Sylvester

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Sylvester by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 31791. 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 Sylvester is

The Census internal point of Sylvester is at 31.529700, -83.834600. Atlanta, the capital, is 156.7 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Tifton, GA (17,385 people), 19.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tallahassee, FL, 78.4 miles away.

Daylight in Sylvester

At 31.53° N, Sylvester gets about 14 h 12 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 06 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 07 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Sylvester

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Ashburn, 16.4 miles away, with 4,239 people.