Editing Hartwell, Georgia (section)

==Demographics==
{{US Census population
|1870= 154
|1880= 443
|1900= 1672
|1910= 2007
|1920= 2323
|1930= 2048
|1940= 2372
|1950= 2964
|1960= 4599
|1970= 4865
|1980= 4855
|1990= 4555
|2000= 4188
|2010= 4469
|2020= 4470
|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>
}}

===2020 census===
{| class="wikitable"
|+Hartwell Racial Composition<ref>{{Cite web|title=Explore Census Data|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/table?g=1600000US1337144&tid=DECENNIALPL2020.P2|access-date=2021-12-07|website=Data.census.gov}}</ref>
!Race
!Num.
!Perc.
|-
|[[White (U.S. Census)|White]]
|2,568
|57.45%
|-
|[[African American (U.S. Census)|Black or African American]]
|1,526
|34.14%
|-
|[[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]]
|5
|0.11%
|-
|[[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]]
|68
|1.52%
|-
|[[Race (United States Census)|Other/Mixed]]
|177
|3.96%
|-
|[[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]]
|126
|2.82%
|}
As of the [[2020 United States census]], there were 4,470 people, 1,592 households, and 1,013 families residing in the city.

===2000 census===
As of the [[census]]<ref name="GR2" /> of 2010, there were 4,469 people.  There were 2,266 housing units.  The racial makeup of the city was 61.33% [[White (U.S. Census)|White]], 34.53% [[African American (U.S. Census)|African American]], 0.13% [[Native American (U.S. Census)|Native American]], 0.62% [[Asian (U.S. Census)|Asian]], 0% [[Pacific Islander (U.S. Census)|Pacific Islander]], 0.33% from [[Race (United States Census)|other races]], and 1.77% from two or more races. [[Hispanic (U.S. Census)|Hispanic]] or [[Latino (U.S. Census)|Latino]] of any race were 3.07% of the population.

The median income for a household in the city was $29,128 and the median income for a family was $45,909. The [[per capita income]] for the city was $18,937.  About 15.4% of families and 23.1% of the population were below the [[poverty line]], including 21.5% of those under age 18 and 20.6% of those age 65 or over.