Haralson County area

Population and density of Haralson County

The Census Bureau estimates that 33,066 people lived in Haralson County on July 1, 2025. That ranks #1,409 of 3,222 county equivalents nationally and #60 of 159 in Georgia. Since the April 1, 2020 estimates base of 29,928, the population has grown by 3,138 (+10.5%), compared with +5.5% for Georgia as a whole.

With 282.2 square miles of land, that is 117 people per square mile (45 per km²), placing Haralson County #888 nationally for density and #56 in Georgia. The median county equivalent has 47 people per square mile; the Georgia median is 69. Put another way, there are about 5.5 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 Haralson County

5 incorporated places lie at least partly in Haralson County. Together they are home to 12,534 people (37.9%); the other 20,532 (62.1%) live outside any incorporated place, in unincorporated communities and rural areas.

The largest is Bremen city, with 7,676 residents in the county (the city extends into 1 other county). The county seat, Buchanan city, has 1,028 residents. Among places with at least 1,000 residents in 2020, Bremen city grew fastest since then (+7.5%).

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

Metropolitan area

Haralson County is an outlying county of the Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metropolitan Statistical Area, in the Marietta, GA metropolitan division. Its 29 county equivalents have 6,482,182 residents on 8,784.1 square miles of land; Haralson County accounts for 3.2% of the land and 0.5% of the residents. By combined land it ranks #10 of 393 metropolitan areas, and #6 by population. It belongs to the Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL Combined Statistical Area.

ZIP codes

7 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas have land in Haralson County; 3 of them have most of their land inside the county, and the others mainly cover neighboring areas.

30110301133012530153301763017930182

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 Haralson County

Haralson County shares a land border with 4 county equivalents, including 1 in Alabama. Each of them has more land than Haralson County. The largest neighbor is Cleburne County (560.1 mi²) and the smallest is Polk County (310.3 mi²). Together with its neighbors, Haralson County forms a block of 1,964.1 mi² of land, of which it holds 14.4%.

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

Haralson County has less land than any of the 50 states. Rhode Island, the smallest state by land area, has 1,033.9 mi², about 3.7 times as much. Georgia’s county land could hold about 205 areas the size of Haralson County.

Another way to picture it: the same land area would fill a square about 16.8 miles (27 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 Haralson County?

Haralson County has more land than 380 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 Haralson County at #2,883 nationally by total area, 41 places farther from the top than its land rank. Other county equivalents gain more area when their water measurements are included.

Its water share is 0.4%, compared with a national county-equivalent median of 1.2% — 0.8 percentage points lower. 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 Haralson 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.