Tifton, Georgia

Tifton population, 2020 to 2024

Tifton added 288 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +1.7%. In the latest year it moved by +15. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 95th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Tifton is 1.1 times that size.

Tifton covers 13.00 square miles of land and 0.20 of water, for 1,337 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Tifton is close to the typical town.

What county Tifton is in

All of Tifton's residents live in Tift County, which had 41,708 residents in 2024. Tifton holds 41.7% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Tifton

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Tifton by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 31793, 31794. 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 Tifton is

The Census internal point of Tifton is at 31.462100, -83.520500. Atlanta, the capital, is 165.9 miles NNW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Albany, GA (66,705 people), 39.5 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Tallahassee, FL, 82.1 miles away.

Daylight in Tifton

At 31.46° N, Tifton 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 06 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Tifton

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Omega, 9.5 miles away, with 1,324 people.