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Grayson is a small, fast-growing city in Gwinnett County in northeastern metro Atlanta, with ZIP Code 30017.

The first settlers arrived in the Grayson area in 1820, and the town was founded in 1879 by James Patterson McConnell, who bought 80 acres from his uncle Stephen Billue at what is now the center of town.

McConnell built the town's first post office building on April 5, 1881, when the community was still known as Trip.

Grayson owes its name to a postal mix-up: in 1901 postmaster John Ellery Jacobs asked to rename Trip as Berkley, but that name was taken, his next choice, Graymount — for the clear view of Stone Mountain — was also taken, so he settled on Grayson, and the General Assembly approved the incorporation and name in December 1901.

The 2020 census counted 4,730 people in Grayson, up from 2,666 in 2010 and just 765 in 2000, as exurban growth swept eastern Gwinnett County.

In the 2000 census, Grayson's 765 residents lived in 276 households.

The city covers about 2.53 square miles in southeastern Gwinnett County.

On June 27, 1994, a damaging tornado struck Grayson and killed a 10-year-old girl.

Grayson Park, on Grayson Parkway, hosts the annual Grayson Day Festival, Easter egg hunts, and free summer movie nights for residents.

City students attend Gwinnett County Public Schools, including Grayson Elementary and Couch Middle School in town, while Grayson High School — whose Rams mascot was chosen when the school was re-established in 2000 after a 1957 consolidation into South Gwinnett High — serves the cluster from its campus on Hope Hollow Road in neighboring Loganville.