#1Hoschton
Jackson County2,699 in 2020·8,623 in 2025·+5,924 people
Hoschton, #1 on this list · Photo: Chris Pruitt · CC BY-SA 3.0Georgia rankings · Growth
Fastest-growing towns in Georgia
Hoschton has grown fastest of Georgia’s 218 towns of 2,500+: up 219.5% from 2,699 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 8,623 in July 2025 (Census Bureau estimates). The typical town here changed +4.1%; 55 of the 218 lost residents.
Census Bureau population estimates, Vintage 2025: July 1, 2025 against the April 2020 base, both on January 2025 town lines (people a town annexed are in its base, not its growth). Estimates, not counts. Unincorporated communities (census-designated places) get no estimate, so they aren’t listed. A described list: no letters. How grades work
#1+219.5%
#2Cumming
Forsyth County7,319 in 2020·12,494 in 2025·+5,175 people
#3Port Wentworth
Chatham County10,875 in 2020·17,604 in 2025·+6,729 people
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Growth since 2020, highest first.
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#TownGrowth since 2020People addedResidents
58Social CircleWalton County+10.9%+5444,993 → 5,537April 2020 → July 2025
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Questions people ask
What is the fastest-growing town in Georgia?
Hoschton (Jackson County): it grew 219.5%, from 2,699 residents in April 2020 to an estimated 8,623 in July 2025. Cumming (+70.7%) and Port Wentworth (+61.9%) follow.
How are these towns ranked?
By the percent change in residents from the Census Bureau’s April 2020 estimates base to its latest July 1 estimate, highest first, on the exact change: two towns shown with the same tenth of a percent keep the order of their unrounded figures, and only an identical change shares a rank (T). The base is the 2020 Census count redrawn on today’s town lines, so a town that annexed land since 2020 changes only by births, deaths and moves, not by the people it took in. How grades work.
Why isn’t my town on this list?
The list covers the towns TownRatings grades that had 2,500+ residents in the 2020 estimates base (218 in Georgia). Census-designated places (unincorporated communities) have no Census Bureau estimates, so they never appear; a town incorporated since 2020, or one TownRatings merges with its twin township, isn’t listed either. Every town is on the Georgia page.
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