157,056 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.0% since 2020)
249 square miles of land · 630 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
4 active community water systems list Bibb County in the area they serve, reporting 130,597 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MACON WATER AUTHORITY surface water · local government · GA0210001 | 130,024 served |
| TIMBER RIDGE SUBDIVISION groundwater · private · GA0210075 | 381 served |
| RUTLAND STATION groundwater · private · GA0210078 | 103 served |
| MACON MANOR ESTATES, LLC groundwater · private · GA0210012 | 89 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 1,036 people were held in Bibb County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 824.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
1 school district has its office in Bibb County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $342.8 million — $306.5 million to run schools, about $14,328 per student, plus $35.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $151.2 million local (mostly property tax), $132 million state, $93.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $10.5 million.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Bibb County about $33.3 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
226 bridges in Bibb County: 179 in good condition, 47 fair, and 0 poor (0.0%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $65.4 million of work in Bibb County in fiscal 2025, about $416 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Georgia are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Bibb County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Bibb County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Jones County (17 mi) · Crawford County (18 mi) · Peach County (18 mi) · Twiggs County (18 mi) · Monroe County (20 mi) · Houston County (24 mi).