Sylvester, Georgia | |
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Nickname: | |
Motto: "Small Town. Big Heart." [1] | |
Coordinates: 31°31′53″N83°50′10″W / 31.53139°N 83.83611°W | |
Country | United States |
State | Georgia |
County | Worth |
Settled | 1893 |
Incorporated (City) | December 21st, 1898 |
Area | |
• Total | 6.60 sq mi (17.09 km2) |
• Land | 6.56 sq mi (16.99 km2) |
• Water | 0.04 sq mi (0.10 km2) |
Elevation | 387 ft (118 m) |
Population (2020) | |
• Total | 5,644 |
• Density | 860.37/sq mi (332.21/km2) |
Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
ZIP code | 31791 |
Area code | 229 |
FIPS code | 13-75188 [4] |
GNIS feature ID | 0356576 [5] |
Website | cityofsylvester |
Sylvester is the county seat of Worth County, Georgia, United States. The population was 5,644 in 2020. The city is the county seat [6] and business center of Worth County [7] and is claimed to be the Peanut Capital of the World due to its peanut production. [1]
Sylvester was platted in 1893. [8] The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Sylvester as a town in 1898. [9]
Sylvester is located at 31°31′53″N83°50′10″W / 31.53139°N 83.83611°W (31.531425, -83.836233). [10] According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 5.7 square miles (15 km2), of which 5.7 square miles (15 km2) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.10 km2) (0.52%) is water.
Sylvester is located on U.S. Highway 82 at the junction of Georgia State Route 33. Georgia State Route 256 enters into southeast Sylvester, where it is co-designated Martin Luther King Jr. Drive.
Census | Pop. | Note | %± |
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1900 | 552 | — | |
1910 | 1,447 | 162.1% | |
1920 | 1,547 | 6.9% | |
1930 | 1,984 | 28.2% | |
1940 | 2,191 | 10.4% | |
1950 | 2,623 | 19.7% | |
1960 | 3,610 | 37.6% | |
1970 | 4,226 | 17.1% | |
1980 | 5,860 | 38.7% | |
1990 | 5,702 | −2.7% | |
2000 | 5,990 | 5.1% | |
2010 | 6,188 | 3.3% | |
2020 | 5,644 | −8.8% | |
U.S. Decennial Census [11] |
Race | Num. | Perc. |
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White (non-Hispanic) | 2,023 | 35.84% |
Black or African American (non-Hispanic) | 3,342 | 59.21% |
Native American | 6 | 0.11% |
Asian | 47 | 0.83% |
Pacific Islander | 6 | 0.11% |
Other/Mixed | 129 | 2.29% |
Hispanic or Latino | 91 | 1.61% |
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 5,644 people, 2,346 households, and 1,709 families residing in the city.
The Worth County School District holds pre-school to grade twelve, and consists of two elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school. [13] The district has 296 full-time teachers and over 4,354 students. [14]
Worth County is a county located in the south-central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 20,784. The county seat is Sylvester. Worth County is included in the Albany, GA metropolitan statistical area.
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