Thunderbolt, Georgia

Thunderbolt population, 2020 to 2024

Thunderbolt lost 17 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of -0.7%. In the latest year it moved by -6.

Thunderbolt covers 1.34 square miles of land and 0.22 of water, for 1,893 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Thunderbolt is denser than the typical town.

What county Thunderbolt is in

All of Thunderbolt's residents live in Chatham County, which had 307,336 residents in 2024. Thunderbolt holds 0.8% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Thunderbolt

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Thunderbolt by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 31404, 31410. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Thunderbolt is

The Census internal point of Thunderbolt is at 32.035700, -81.049200. Atlanta, the capital, is 227.0 miles WNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Garden City, GA (10,536 people), 8.3 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Savannah, GA, 8.7 miles away.

Daylight in Thunderbolt

At 32.04° N, Thunderbolt gets about 14 h 15 min of daylight around the June solstice and 10 h 03 min around the December solstice, a swing of 4 h 12 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Thunderbolt

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Garden City, 8.3 miles away, with 10,536 people.