Dacula ( də-KEW-lə) is a city in Gwinnett County, Georgia, United States. It is an exurb of Atlanta, located nearly 37 miles (60 km) northeast of downtown. The population as of the 2010 census was 4,442, and the U.S. Census Bureau estimated the population to be 6,255 as of 2018.

The vicinity of Dacula was one of the first areas in present-day metropolitan Atlanta to be claimed by settlers (around the get older of the War of 1812), but the Place remained mostly undeveloped until the late 20th century. The Dacula Place is house to some of the oldest buildings in greater Atlanta, such as the Elisha Winn House, which originally acted as the courthouse for Gwinnett County. Dacula itself began in the late 1800s under the state of Chinquapin Grove, where Dacula Elementary now stands. The town was renamed named “Hoke”, in 1891 after a Seaboard Air Line Railroad executive, but that publicize was misused due to the Post Office Department’s protest. Dacula’s reveal was formed from letters in Decatur and Atlanta, two cities to the west that were already prospering at the grow old of Dacula’s founding. The city was once house to a train station on a CSX origin through northeast Georgia, although the station closed in the mid-1950s.

Dacula is located in eastern Gwinnett County, with U.S. Route 29 Business/Georgia State Route 8 (Winder Highway) the main road through the middle of town. Business 29/SR 8 leads west 6 miles (10 km) to Lawrenceville, the county seat, and east 11 miles (18 km) to Winder. U.S. Route 29 (University Parkway) is a four-lane highway that bypasses Dacula to the south, with permission from Harbins Road. University Parkway leads east 34 miles (55 km) to Athens and west 12 miles (19 km) to Interstate 85, which leads an extra 25 miles (40 km) southwest to downtown Atlanta.

According to the United States Census Bureau, Dacula has a total Place of 5.0 square miles (12.9 km), of which 0.031 square miles (0.08 km²), or 0.59%, is water.