Editing Jefferson, Georgia (section)

==Demographics==
[[Image:JeffersonGeorgiaTownSquare03.jpg|left|thumb|225px|View towards the east side of the square showing the Confederate Memorial and the highway leading to Commerce, Georgia]]
{{US Census population
|1880= 419
|1890= 540
|1900= 726
|1910= 1207
|1920= 1626
|1930= 1869
|1940= 1839
|1950= 2040
|1960= 1746
|1970= 1647
|1980= 1820
|1990= 2763
|2000= 3825
|2010= 9432
|2020= 13233
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census<ref name="DecennialCensus">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|access-date=June 4, 2015}}</ref>
}}
{| class="wikitable"
|+Jefferson racial composition as of 2020<ref>{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US1341988&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=2021-12-17|website=data.census.gov}}</ref>
!Race
!Num.
!Perc.
|-
|[[White (U.S. Census)|White]] (non-Hispanic)
|10,240
|77.38%
|-
|[[African American (U.S. Census)|Black or African American]] (non-Hispanic)
|1,087
|8.21%
|-
|[[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]]
|22
|0.17%
|-
|[[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]]
|269
|2.03%
|-
|[[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]]
|3
|0.02%
|-
|[[Race (United States Census)|Other/mixed]]
|572
|4.32%
|-
|[[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]]
|1,040
|7.86%
|}
As of the [[2020 United States census]], there were 13,233 people, 3,933 households, and 2,885 families residing in the city. In a 2024 report, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that Jefferson, GA was the fastest growing [[micropolitan statistical area]] in the country from 2020 to 2023. The population increased by an estimated 16.24% in that period.<ref>{{Cite web |last=U.S. Census Bureau |date=March 14, 2024 |title=Annual and Cumulative Estimates of Resident Population Change for Micropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States and Puerto Rico and Micropolitan Statistical Area Rankings: April 1, 2020 to July 1, 2023 |url=https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/tables/2020-2023/metro/totals/cbsa-mic-est2023-chg.xlsx |access-date=October 28, 2024}}</ref>