Hall County area

Population and density of Hall County

The Census Bureau estimates that 226,568 people lived in Hall County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #317 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #10 of 159 in Georgia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 202,813, the population has grown by 23,755 (+11.7%), compared with +5.5% for Georgia as a whole.

With 392.5 square miles of land, that is 577 people per square mile (223 per km²), placing Hall County #304 nationally for density and #20 in Georgia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Georgia median is 69. Put another way, there are about 1.1 acres of land per resident.

U.S. Census Bureau, Vintage 2025 population estimates. Estimates are revised each year and are not decennial census counts. Density divides the whole population by the whole county’s land area, so it describes an average, not how settlement is distributed within the county. Population sources and methods.

Cities and towns in Hall County

9 incorporated places lie at least partly in Hall County. Together they are home to 80,964 people (35.7%); the other 145,604 (64.3%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Gainesville city, with 49,221 residents in the county. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Oakwood city grew fastest since then (+50.5%).

Population: U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025 subcounty estimates, counting only the part of each place inside Hall County. Land: 2026 Census Gazetteer, for the whole place even where it extends into other counties. How communities are listed.

Metropolitan area

Hall County is a central county of the Gainesville, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Hall County is the area’s only county equivalent, so the metro area has the same 392.5 square miles of land. By combined land it ranks #380 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #217 by population. It belongs to the Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

19 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Hall County; 10 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

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ZIP Code Tabulation Areas are the Census Bureau’s approximations of USPS ZIP Code service areas, from the 2020 Census relationship files. Lighter codes have less than half of their land in this county. Post-office-box and single-address ZIP Codes have no tabulation area.

Counties bordering Hall County

Hall County shares a land border with 8 county equivalents. It has more land than 7 of them. The largest neighbor is Gwinnett County (431.2 mi²) and the smallest is Dawson County (210.8 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Hall County forms a block of 2,630.3 mi² of land, of which it holds 14.9%.

How big is Hall County compared with U.S. states?

Hall County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 2.6 times as much. Georgia’s county land could hold about 147 areas the size of Hall County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 19.8 miles (31.9 km) on each side. Real county shapes are rarely square, so this is a scale reference rather than a width or driving distance.

State figures are the sums of each state’s county-equivalent land measurements in the same Census release, so states and counties are compared on the same basis. Published state totals can differ slightly because of rounding. Compare all states · Counties bigger than entire states.

What stands out about Hall County?

Hall County has more land than 659 of the other 3,221 county equivalents in the dataset.

A median is the middle county-equivalent measurement, not the average of the largest and smallest. All three bars use the same linear scale. Very small areas may appear as a thin sliver; the labels retain their values.

Does including water change its rank?

Using land plus water places Hall County at #2,454 nationally by total area, 109 places closer to the top than its land rank. The water assigned to this geography moves it ahead of some county equivalents with more land.

Its water share is 8.4%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 7.3 percentage points higher. This describes the statistical geography’s land/water mix, not flood exposure or developable land.

Closest positions in the national land ranking

These entries sit immediately beside Hall County in the national ranking. They can be in different states and are not necessarily geographic neighbors.

Calculated from the same Census release as the area table. Total-area order uses original ALAND + AWATER; water shares and chart labels use published square miles. Calculation details.