Total Population 1980 and 1990, 2000 and 2010 Projections*
County	1980 Census Population	1990 Census Population	Census 2000 Population	2010 Population Projections
GEORGIA	5,463,105	6,478,216	8,186,453	9,592,370
Appling	15,565	15,744	17,419	17,841
Atkinson	6,141	6,213	7,609	7,354
Bacon	9,379	9,566	10,103	9,331
Baker	3,808	3,615	4,074	4,280
Baldwin	34,686	39,530	44,700	46,285
Banks	8,702	10,308	14,422	17,429
Barrow	21,354	29,721	46,144	65,763
Bartow	40,760	55,911	76,019	104,071
Ben Hill	16,000	16,245	17,484	15,804
Berrien	13,525	14,153	16,235	15,229
Bibb	150,256	149,967	153,887	151,933
Bleckley	10,767	10,430	11,666	12,213
Brantley	8,701	11,077	14,629	16,360
Brooks	15,255	15,398	16,450	16,103
Bryan	10,175	15,438	23,417	31,337
Bulloch	35,785	43,125	55,983	62,464
Burke	19,349	20,579	22,243	24,733
Butts	13,665	15,326	19,522	27,371
Calhoun	5,717	5,013	6,320	6,247
Camden	13,371	30,167	43,664	46,345
Candler	7,518	7,744	9,577	9,083
Carroll	56,346	71,422	87,268	120,536
Catoosa	36,991	42,464	53,282	66,690
Charlton	7,343	8,496	10,282	11,537
Chatham	202,226	216,935	232,048	232,650
Chattahoochee	21,732	16,934	14,882	22,699
Chattooga	21,856	22,242	25,470	28,483
Cherokee	51,699	90,204	141,903	214,144
Clarke	74,498	87,594	101,489	103,834
Clay	3,553	3,364	3,357	3,628
Clayton	150,357	182,052	236,517	308,321
Clinch	6,660	6,160	6,878	6,563
Cobb	297,718	447,745	607,751	775,877
Coffee	26,894	29,592	37,413	40,750
Colquitt	35,376	36,645	42,053	43,091
Columbia	40,118	66,031	89,288	111,179
Cook	13,490	13,456	15,771	16,369
Coweta	39,268	53,853	89,215	126,639
Crawford	7,684	8,991	12,495	12,936
Crisp	19,489	20,011	21,996	23,024
Dade	12,318	13,147	15,154	17,707
Dawson	4,774	9,429	15,999	24,242
Decatur	25,495	25,511	28,240	28,022
DeKalb	483,024	545,837	665,865	663,345
Dodge	16,955	17,607	19,171	18,992
Dooly	10,826	9,901	11,525	12,657
Dougherty	100,718	96,311	96,065	94,052
Douglas	54,573	71,120	92,174	119,235
Early	13,158	11,854	12,354	11,904
Echols	2,297	2,334	3,754	3,577
Effingham	18,327	25,687	37,535	52,256
Elbert	18,758	18,949	20,511	21,486
Emanuel	20,795	20,546	21,837	22,049
Evans	8,428	8,724	10,495	12,205
Fannin	14,748	15,992	19,798	25,835
Fayette	29,043	62,415	91,263	121,156
Floyd	79,800	81,251	90,565	94,889
Forsyth	27,958	44,083	98,407	181,961
Franklin	15,185	16,650	20,285	23,783
Fulton	589,904	648,951	816,006	820,384
Gilmer	11,110	13,368	23,456	29,764
Glascock	2,382	2,357	2,556	2,743
Glynn	54,981	62,496	67,568	72,136
Gordon	30,070	35,072	44,104	54,259
Grady	19,845	20,279	23,659	24,057
Greene	11,391	11,793	14,406	17,994
Gwinnett	166,903	352,910	588,448	820,960
Habersham	25,020	27,621	35,902	44,690
Hall	75,649	95,428	139,277	184,185
Hancock	9,466	8,908	10,076	10,138
Haralson	18,422	21,966	25,690	30,005
Harris	15,464	17,788	23,695	29,647
Hart	18,585	19,712	22,997	23,634
Heard	6,520	8,628	11,012	12,527
Henry	36,309	58,741	119,341	211,828
Houston	77,605	89,208	110,765	129,065
Irwin	8,988	8,649	9,931	10,740
Jackson	25,343	30,005	41,589	58,540
Jasper	7,553	8,453	11,426	14,768
Jeff Davis	11,473	12,032	12,684	13,248
Jefferson	18,403	17,408	17,266	16,111
Jenkins	8,841	8,247	8,575	9,028
Johnson	8,660	8,329	8,560	9,161
Jones	16,579	20,739	23,639	27,567
Lamar	12,215	13,038	15,912	18,684
Lanier	5,654	5,531	7,241	6,536
Laurens	36,990	39,988	44,874	48,429
Lee	11,684	16,250	24,757	30,258
Liberty	37,583	52,745	61,610	51,896
Lincoln	6,716	7,442	8,348	8,882
Long	4,524	6,202	10,304	12,044
Lowndes	67,972	75,981	92,115	93,018
Lumpkin	10,762	14,573	21,016	26,993
Macon	14,003	13,114	14,074	13,834
Madison	17,747	21,050	25,730	29,143
Marion	5,297	5,590	7,144	9,087
McDuffie	18,546	20,119	21,231	21,433
McIntosh	8,046	8,634	10,847	12,492
Meriwether	21,229	22,411	22,534	23,199
Miller	7,038	6,280	6,383	6,378
Mitchell	21,114	20,275	23,932	24,828
Monroe	14,610	17,113	21,757	24,642
Montgomery	7,011	7,163	8,270	8,909
Morgan	11,572	12,883	15,457	20,320
Murray	19,685	26,147	36,506	45,223
Muscogee	170,108	179,278	186,291	173,509
Newton	34,489	41,808	62,001	104,223
Oconee	12,427	17,618	26,225	32,070
Oglethorpe	8,929	9,763	12,635	14,968
Paulding	26,110	41,611	81,678	138,073
Peach	19,151	21,189	23,668	27,369
Pickens	11,652	14,432	22,983	35,542
Pierce	11,897	13,328	15,636	16,077
Pike	8,937	10,224	13,688	17,637
Polk	32,386	33,815	38,127	43,140
Pulaski	8,950	8,108	9,588	9,705
Putnam	10,295	14,137	18,812	20,807
Quitman	2,357	2,209	2,598	2,682
Rabun	10,466	11,648	15,050	16,930
Randolph	9,599	8,023	7,791	6,915
Richmond	181,629	189,719	199,775	190,328
Rockdale	36,747	54,091	70,111	82,028
Schley	3,433	3,588	3,766	4,852
Screven	14,043	13,842	15,374	14,020
Seminole	9,057	9,010	9,369	9,361
Spalding	47,899	54,457	58,417	63,017
Stephens	21,763	23,257	25,435	26,949
Stewart	5,896	5,654	5,252	4,522
Sumter	29,360	30,228	33,200	34,101
Talbot	6,536	6,524	6,498	7,955
Taliaferro	2,032	1,915	2,077	1,780
Tattnall	18,134	17,722	22,305	22,861
Taylor	7,902	7,642	8,815	8,987
Telfair	11,445	11,000	11,794	11,093
Terrell	12,017	10,653	10,970	11,025
Thomas	38,098	38,986	42,737	44,728
Tift	32,862	34,998	38,407	40,003
Toombs	22,592	24,072	26,067	26,400
Towns	5,638	6,754	9,319	11,666
Treutlen	6,087	5,994	6,854	6,401
Troup	50,003	55,536	58,779	63,904
Turner	9,510	8,703	9,504	10,333
Twiggs	9,354	9,806	10,590	10,599
Union	9,390	11,993	17,289	21,588
Upson	25,998	26,300	27,597	28,462
Walker	56,470	58,340	61,053	66,966
Walton	31,211	38,586	60,687	92,404
Ware	37,180	35,471	35,483	36,051
Warren	6,583	6,078	6,336	5,938
Washington	18,842	19,112	21,176	20,281
Wayne	20,750	22,356	26,565	29,329
Webster	2,341	2,263	2,390	1,767
Wheeler	5,155	4,903	6,179	6,682
White	10,120	13,006	19,944	28,619
Whitfield	65,789	72,462	83,525	95,602
Wilcox	7,682	7,008	8,577	9,553
Wilkes	10,951	10,597	10,687	10,714
Wilkinson	10,368	10,228	10,220	10,789
Worth	18,064	19,745	21,967	21,779
*Projections are based on calculations by the Governor's Office of Planning and Budget revised August 2002.
Source for 1980, 1990 and 2000 population: U. S. Bureau of the Census.