16,344 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.4% since 2020)
493 square miles of land · 33 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.
14 active community water systems list Brooks County in the area they serve, reporting 9,125 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| QUITMAN groundwater · local government · GA0270002 | 5,612 served |
| MORVEN groundwater · local government · GA0270001 | 680 served |
| BARWICK groundwater · local government · GA0270000 | 626 served |
| SHADY ACRES SUBDIVISION groundwater · private · GA0270006 | 451 served |
| GREEN MEADOWS #2/QUAIL RUN groundwater · private · GA0270029 | 367 served |
| JAMAR SUBDIVISION groundwater · private · GA0270009 | 275 served |
| FERNWOOD MOBILE HOME COMMUNITY groundwater · private · GA0270010 | 199 served |
| DEER CREEK MOBILE HOME PARK groundwater · private · GA0270007 | 195 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 63 people were held in Brooks County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2025). In 2020 it was about 44.
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 Brooks County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $38 million — $34 million to run schools, about $15,866 per student, plus $3.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11.7 million local (mostly property tax), $16 million state, $9.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.6 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Brooks County about $8.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
104 bridges in Brooks County: 74 in good condition, 26 fair, and 4 poor (3.8%). “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.
| LIVINGSTON ROAD over PISCOLA CREEK · built 1969 | 519 vehicles a day |
| LIBERTY CHURCH RD over CAT CREEK TRIB · built 1935 | 194 vehicles a day |
| BEASLEY ROAD over CARROLL CREEK TRIB · built 1935 | 158 vehicles a day |
| HODGES ROAD over MULE CREEK · built 1985 | 158 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $3.3 million of work in Brooks County in fiscal 2025, about $202 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 Brooks 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 Brooks County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Lowndes County (19 mi) · Thomas County (20 mi) · Cook County (24 mi) · Madison County, FL (27 mi) · Colquitt County (28 mi) · Lanier County (34 mi).