Winder, Georgia

Winder population, 2020 to 2024

Winder added 2,223 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +12.1%. In the latest year it moved by +872. Among 148 Georgia places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 36th; the median place changed by +4.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Georgia has 16,252 people, so Winder is 1.3 times that size.

Winder covers 14.92 square miles of land and 0.50 of water, for 1,383 people per square mile of land. The median Georgia place of 5,000+ has 1,234, so Winder is denser than the typical town.

What county Winder is in

All of Winder's residents live in Barrow County, which had 96,294 residents in 2024. Winder holds 21.4% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Winder

1 ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) overlaps Winder by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the city's land: 30680. 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 Winder is

The Census internal point of Winder is at 33.991600, -83.723600. Atlanta, the capital, is 41.6 miles WSW in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Lawrenceville, GA (31,877 people), 15.6 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Athens-Clarke County, GA, 20.4 miles away.

Daylight in Winder

At 33.99° N, Winder gets about 14 h 25 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 Winder

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Georgia, measured between internal points. The closest is Auburn, 6.5 miles away, with 10,094 people.