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Gainesville, GA Metro Area

The Gainesville, GA metro area is one county in Georgia: Hall County. About 226,568 people lived there on July 1, 2025 (Census estimate), 11.7% more than in April 2020.

Hall County, centralGainesville
Hall County in Georgia
Population, July 2025
226,568 11.7% more than in April 2020
Type
Metropolitan statistical area
County
Hall County
Land area
393 sq mi (1,017 km²)
Time zone
Eastern TimeUTC-05:00 in January; UTC-04:00 in July
State
Georgia
Combined statistical area
Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL
CBSA code
23580
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The county in the Gainesville, GA metro area

CountyRolePopulation, July 2025
Hall CountyCentral226,568

A central county holds the area’s core, an urban area of at least 50,000 people. This area has no outlying counties: no neighboring county sends enough commuters to join it. A county belongs to one metro or micro area at most, and it counts whole, countryside included.

Principal city

  1. Gainesville45,032 people

OMB names the area after its largest principal cities. A principal city is the area’s largest city, plus any other city that is very large or a big job center, and smaller ones with at least as many jobs as working residents (2020 Census and commuting figures). People counts are American Community Survey 2020–2024 5-year estimates.

Part of the Atlanta--Athens-Clarke County--Sandy Springs, GA-AL combined statistical area

OMB joins neighboring metro and micro areas into a combined statistical area when enough people commute between them. The other 9 areas in this one, largest first:

  1. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area6,482,182 people
  2. Athens-Clarke County, GA Metro Area224,148 people
  3. LaGrange, GA-AL Micro Area107,097 people
  4. Rome, GA Metro Area101,378 people
  5. Jefferson, GA Micro Area99,265 people
  6. Calhoun, GA Micro Area61,701 people
  7. Cornelia, GA Micro Area50,416 people
  8. Cedartown, GA Micro Area45,514 people
  9. Thomaston, GA Micro Area28,500 people

Bordering metro and micro areas, nearest first

Areas with a county on this area’s edge. Distances are straight lines between the areas’ largest cities.

  1. Jefferson, GA Micro Area17 mi southeast
  2. Cornelia, GA Micro Area23 mi northeast
  3. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA Metro Area50 mi southwest

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A metro or micro area is a statistical area that OMB draws for federal statistics. It is not a city, a local government or a mailing address, and it is not a measure of urban and rural: whole counties count, rural parts included. Programs that use metro areas, such as housing income limits or wage rates, can use their own version of these lists; check the program’s own list for an address.

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