Georgia
People per square mile, 1990:
People per square mile, 2000:
Historic & Projected Growth
1790 to 2030
| Year | Population | Year | Population | Year | Population | ||
| 1790 | 82,548 | 1880 | 1,542,180 | 1970 | 4,587,930 | ||
| 1800 | 162,686 | 1890 | 1,837,353 | 1980 | 5,462,982 | ||
| 1810 | 252,433 | 1900 | 2,216,331 | 1990 | 6,478,216 | ||
| 1820 | 340,989 | 1910 | 2,609,121 | 2000 | 8,186,453 | ||
| 1830 | 516,823 | 1920 | 2,895,832 | 2010 | 9,589,080 | ||
| 1840 | 691,392 | 1930 | 2,908,506 | 2020 | 10,843,753 | ||
| 1850 | 906,185 | 1940 | 3,123,723 | 2030 | 12,017,838 | ||
| 1860 | 1,057,286 | 1950 | 3,444,578 | ||||
| 1870 | 1,184,109 | 1960 | 3,943,116 |
Population By County
| Census 2000 Population |
Change from 1990 |
Percent Change |
|
| GEORGIA | 8,186,453 | 1,708,237 | 26.4 |
| Appling County | 17,419 | 1,675 | 10.6 |
| Atkinson County | 7,609 | 1,396 | 22.5 |
| Bacon County | 10,103 | 537 | 5.6 |
| Baker County | 4,074 | 459 | 12.7 |
| Baldwin County | 44,700 | 5,170 | 13.1 |
| Banks County | 14,422 | 4,114 | 39.9 |
| Barrow County | 46,144 | 16,423 | 55.3 |
| Bartow County | 76,019 | 20,108 | 36.0 |
| Ben Hill County | 17,484 | 1,239 | 7.6 |
| Berrien County | 16,235 | 2,082 | 14.7 |
| Bibb County | 153,887 | 3,920 | 2.6 |
| Bleckley County | 11,666 | 1,236 | 11.9 |
| Brantley County | 14,629 | 3,552 | 32.1 |
| Brooks County | 16,450 | 1,052 | 6.8 |
| Bryan County | 23,417 | 7,979 | 51.7 |
| Bulloch County | 55,983 | 12,858 | 29.8 |
| Burke County | 22,243 | 1,664 | 8.1 |
| Butts County | 19,522 | 4,196 | 27.4 |
| Calhoun County | 6,320 | 1,307 | 26.1 |
| Camden County | 43,664 | 13,497 | 44.7 |
| Candler County | 9,577 | 1,833 | 23.7 |
| Carroll County | 87,268 | 15,846 | 22.2 |
| Catoosa County | 53,282 | 10,818 | 25.5 |
| Charlton County | 10,282 | 1,786 | 21.0 |
| Chatham County | 232,048 | 15,113 | 7.0 |
| Chattahoochee County | 14,882 | -2,052 | -12.1 |
| Chattooga County | 25,470 | 3,228 | 14.5 |
| Cherokee County | 141,903 | 51,699 | 57.3 |
| Clarke County | 101,489 | 13,895 | 15.9 |
| Clay County | 3,357 | -7 | -0.2 |
| Clayton County | 236,517 | 54,465 | 29.9 |
| Clinch County | 6,878 | 718 | 11.7 |
| Cobb County | 607,751 | 160,006 | 35.7 |
| Coffee County | 37,413 | 7,821 | 26.4 |
| Colquitt County | 42,053 | 5,408 | 14.8 |
| Columbia County | 89,288 | 23,257 | 35.2 |
| Cook County | 15,771 | 2,315 | 17.2 |
| Coweta County | 89,215 | 35,362 | 65.7 |
| Crawford County | 12,495 | 3,504 | 39.0 |
| Crisp County | 21,996 | 1,985 | 9.9 |
| Dade County | 15,154 | 2,007 | 15.3 |
| Dawson County | 15,999 | 6,570 | 69.7 |
| Decatur County | 28,240 | 2,729 | 10.7 |
| DeKalb County | 665,865 | 120,028 | 22.0 |
| Dodge County | 19,171 | 1,564 | 8.9 |
| Dooly County | 11,525 | 1,624 | 16.4 |
| Dougherty County | 96,065 | -246 | -0.3 |
| Douglas County | 92,174 | 21,054 | 29.6 |
| Early County | 12,354 | 500 | 4.2 |
| Echols County | 3,754 | 1,420 | 60.8 |
| Effingham County | 37,535 | 11,848 | 46.1 |
| Elbert County | 20,511 | 1,562 | 8.2 |
| Emanuel County | 21,837 | 1,291 | 6.3 |
| Evans County | 10,495 | 1,771 | 20.3 |
| Fannin County | 19,798 | 3,806 | 23.8 |
| Fayette County | 91,263 | 28,848 | 46.2 |
| Floyd County | 90,565 | 9,314 | 11.5 |
| Forsyth County | 98,407 | 54,324 | 123.2 |
| Franklin County | 20,285 | 3,635 | 21.8 |
| Fulton County | 816,006 | 167,055 | 25.7 |
| Gilmer County | 23,456 | 10,088 | 75.5 |
| Glascock County | 2,556 | 199 | 8.4 |
| Glynn County | 67,568 | 5,072 | 8.1 |
| Gordon County | 44,104 | 9,032 | 25.8 |
| Grady County | 23,659 | 3,380 | 16.7 |
| Greene County | 14,406 | 2,613 | 22.2 |
| Gwinnett County | 588,448 | 235,538 | 66.7 |
| Habersham County | 35,902 | 8,281 | 30.0 |
| Hall County | 139,277 | 43,849 | 45.9 |
| Hancock County | 10,076 | 1,168 | 13.1 |
| Haralson County | 25,690 | 3,724 | 17.0 |
| Harris County | 23,695 | 5,907 | 33.2 |
| Hart County | 22,997 | 3,285 | 16.7 |
| Heard County | 11,012 | 2,384 | 27.6 |
| Henry County | 119,341 | 60,600 | 103.2 |
| Houston County | 110,765 | 21,557 | 24.2 |
| Irwin County | 9,931 | 1,282 | 14.8 |
| Jackson County | 41,589 | 11,584 | 38.6 |
| Jasper County | 11,426 | 2,973 | 35.2 |
| Jeff Davis County | 12,684 | 652 | 5.4 |
| Jefferson County | 17,266 | -142 | -0.8 |
| Jenkins County | 8,575 | 328 | 4.0 |
| Johnson County | 8,560 | 231 | 2.8 |
| Jones County | 23,639 | 2,900 | 14.0 |
| Lamar County | 15,912 | 2,874 | 22.0 |
| Lanier County | 7,241 | 1,710 | 30.9 |
| Laurens County | 44,874 | 4,886 | 12.2 |
| Lee County | 24,757 | 8,507 | 52.4 |
| Liberty County | 61,610 | 8,865 | 16.8 |
| Lincoln County | 8,348 | 906 | 12.2 |
| Long County | 10,304 | 4,102 | 66.1 |
| Lowndes County | 92,115 | 16,134 | 21.2 |
| Lumpkin County | 21,016 | 6,443 | 44.2 |
| McDuffie County | 21,231 | 1,112 | 5.5 |
| McIntosh County | 10,847 | 2,213 | 25.6 |
| Macon County | 14,074 | 960 | 7.3 |
| Madison County | 25,730 | 4,680 | 22.2 |
| Marion County | 7,144 | 1,554 | 27.8 |
| Meriwether County | 22,534 | 123 | 0.5 |
| Miller County | 6,383 | 103 | 1.6 |
| Mitchell County | 23,932 | 3,657 | 18.0 |
| Monroe County | 21,757 | 4,644 | 27.1 |
| Montgomery County | 8,270 | 1,107 | 15.5 |
| Morgan County | 15,457 | 2,574 | 20.0 |
| Murray County | 36,506 | 10,359 | 39.6 |
| Muscogee County | 186,291 | 7,013 | 3.9 |
| Newton County | 62,001 | 20,193 | 48.3 |
| Oconee County | 26,225 | 8,607 | 48.9 |
| Oglethorpe County | 12,635 | 2,872 | 29.4 |
| Paulding County | 81,678 | 40,067 | 96.3 |
| Peach County | 23,668 | 2,479 | 11.7 |
| Pickens County | 22,983 | 8,551 | 59.3 |
| Pierce County | 15,636 | 2,308 | 17.3 |
| Pike County | 13,688 | 3,464 | 33.9 |
| Polk County | 38,127 | 4,312 | 12.8 |
| Pulaski County | 9,588 | 1,480 | 18.3 |
| Putnam County | 18,812 | 4,675 | 33.1 |
| Quitman County | 2,598 | 389 | 17.6 |
| Rabun County | 15,050 | 3,402 | 29.2 |
| Randolph County | 7,791 | -232 | -2.9 |
| Richmond County | 199,775 | 10,056 | 5.3 |
| Rockdale County | 70,111 | 16,020 | 29.6 |
| Schley County | 3,766 | 178 | 5.0 |
| Screven County | 15,374 | 1,532 | 11.1 |
| Seminole County | 9,369 | 359 | 4.0 |
| Spalding County | 58,417 | 3,960 | 7.3 |
| Stephens County | 25,435 | 2,178 | 9.4 |
| Stewart County | 5,252 | -402 | -7.1 |
| Sumter County | 33,200 | 2,972 | 9.8 |
| Talbot County | 6,498 | -26 | -0.4 |
| Taliaferro County | 2,077 | 162 | 8.5 |
| Tattnall County | 22,305 | 4,583 | 25.9 |
| Taylor County | 8,815 | 1,173 | 15.3 |
| Telfair County | 11,794 | 794 | 7.2 |
| Terrell County | 10,970 | 317 | 3.0 |
| Thomas County | 42,737 | 3,751 | 9.6 |
| Tift County | 38,407 | 3,409 | 9.7 |
| Toombs County | 26,067 | 1,995 | 8.3 |
| Towns County | 9,319 | 2,565 | 38.0 |
| Treutlen County | 6,854 | 860 | 14.3 |
| Troup County | 58,779 | 3,243 | 5.8 |
| Turner County | 9,504 | 801 | 9.2 |
| Twiggs County | 10,590 | 784 | 8.0 |
| Union County | 17,289 | 5,296 | 44.2 |
| Upson County | 27,597 | 1,297 | 4.9 |
| Walker County | 61,053 | 2,713 | 4.7 |
| Walton County | 60,687 | 22,101 | 57.3 |
| Ware County | 35,483 | 12 | 0.0 |
| Warren County | 6,336 | 258 | 4.2 |
| Washington County | 21,176 | 2,064 | 10.8 |
| Wayne County | 26,565 | 4,209 | 18.8 |
| Webster County | 2,390 | 127 | 5.6 |
| Wheeler County | 6,179 | 1,276 | 26.0 |
| White County | 19,944 | 6,938 | 53.3 |
| Whitfield County | 83,525 | 11,063 | 15.3 |
| Wilcox County | 8,577 | 1,569 | 22.4 |
| Wilkes County | 10,687 | 90 | 0.8 |
| Wilkinson County | 10,220 | -8 | -0.1 |
| Worth County | 21,967 | 2,222 | 11.3 |
SOURCE: U.S. Bureau of the Census
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