Gwinnett County · The I-85 corridor
About Mulberry
Mulberry is a city in Gwinnett County, Georgia, on the county's northeast side along the I-85 corridor. Voters approved the new city on May 21, 2024, and it began operating as a city on January 1, 2025, which makes it Georgia's newest incorporated city.
It is deliberately a limited-service city. Mulberry itself is responsible for planning and zoning, code enforcement, and stormwater management; Gwinnett County continues to deliver most of the everyday services the city does not. The result is a city that stays light on its feet while the surrounding area does what it has always done.
What it is
A real city, and a deliberate small one
Mulberry is an incorporated city in Gwinnett County, Georgia. In May 2024, voters inside the proposed boundaries approved a city charter under Georgia Senate Bill 333, with a majority voting to create the new city. The city organized over the rest of that year and went to work on January 1, 2025. Its first city council was elected by district, and the council chose one of its own members as the first mayor.
"Limited-service" is the honest description. The city provides just three things directly: planning and zoning, code enforcement, and stormwater management. Everything else, from parks to roads to public schooling, stays with the agencies and the county that already ran it. There is no city property tax millage; residents pay the county, and the county delivers the public services the city does not.
Where it sits
Where Mulberry is on the map
Mulberry covers the northeastern side of Gwinnett County, the area people have long called Hamilton Mill and the country roads around it, running along the I-85 corridor where the freeway heads toward the Hall and Barrow county lines. It is not far from the Gwinnett cities residents already know: Dacula to the south, Braselton to the north, Buford and Suwanee to the west.
By land area the city is the largest in Gwinnett County, and the U.S. Census Bureau formally recognized it as a city-level place in early 2026, with an estimated population of around 40,000. In one sentence: Mulberry is new, it is big by area, and it is growing from neighborhoods that were well established long before the city existed.
How it works
What the city does, and what it does not
The city provides
- Planning and zoning, including the permit side of development.
- Code enforcement for properties inside the city line.
- Stormwater management under the city's new program.
Everyone else keeps
- The public schools, run entirely by Gwinnett County Public Schools.
- Policing, fire, roads, and the courts, delivered as before.
- The parks and trails, from Little Mulberry Park to the county network.
The city line does not rewrite the daily map. Mulberry is best understood as a new layer of local planning, chosen by its own residents, sitting on top of the Gwinnett County services that were already there.
Straight answers
Questions people actually ask
Is Mulberry a real city?
Yes. It is an incorporated city in Georgia, approved by referendum and operating since January 1, 2025. It has a city council, a mayor, districts, and an official website. It just runs a much thinner set of services than older cities.
Is Mulberry basically the same as Hamilton Mill?
Mostly. The city was drawn around the neighborhoods long known as Hamilton Mill and the surrounding country roads. Hamilton Mill is a historic community name, and its guide sits inside the Mulberry guide as a community page.
Does the city change which school my address gets?
No. School attendance zones come from Gwinnett County Public Schools, and the city line does not change them. Check the Mulberry schools page for the zone names and how to check by address.
An editorial guide, not a listings site. Updated September 13, 2026. Real-estate guidance on this page is provided by Rob Dietrich, REALTOR® with eXp Realty, LLC.