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Marietta, Georgia

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The city of Marietta is located in Cobb County and is the county seat.

Marietta is 330 feet [100.58 m] above sea level.<1>

Time Zone: Marietta lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time.

Communities that are also named Marietta can be found in:

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At the time of the 2000 Census, Marietta had a population of 58,748 people<3> (or 9.59% of the total population of Cobb County). The population of Marietta represented 0.72% of the total of Georgia, making it the state's 7th most populous community.

From the Census Estimates for 2008, Marietta had a population of 67,562 people. This is an increase of 15% since the 2000 Census.

The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated. More information can be found on the Census Page for Marietta.

YearPopulationChange
Since 2000
Year-to-Year Change
200867,562+15%+0.99% since 2007
200766,900+13.88%+1.6% since 2006
200665,848+12.09%+1.96% since 2005
200564,584+9.93% 
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200058,748The Last Census

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

 Community DirectionDistance<4>2008
Population
Change
Since 2000
 Acworth   NW10 mi [16.09 km]19,47645.11% increase
 Alpharetta   NE17 mi [27.36 km]49,90343.18% increase
 Atlanta   SE14 mi [22.53 km]537,95829.17% increase
 Decatur   SE18 mi [28.97 km]18,9864.62% increase
 Douglasville   SW17 mi [27.36 km]31,03554.67% increase
 Kennesaw   NW6 mi [9.66 km]31,62845.92% increase

To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Marietta.

Websites for Marietta

Official Website:   www.city.marietta.ga.us/
   
Junior League:   www.jlcm.org/

If you know of a local history or genealogy society for either Marietta or Cobb County, would you please send us the URL for their website? We would like to add their link to our Gazetteer. To contact us, please visit our Feedback Page.




Search for Local Businesses

Google's 'Search-by-Location' is a very useful tool for people who might be planning visits to this area. We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities that are in (or close to) Marietta. It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

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Other...     Veterinarians      

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).



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Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Marietta? Please visit the Map Page for Marietta.


Footnotes

<1>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Marietta - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others.

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<2>We use the term 'historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable and we would like to be accurate. If you can provide us with more specific information about Marietta, please let us know so that we can make corrections.

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<3>Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Marietta.

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<4>Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Marietta and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance.

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<5>All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint.

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