85,454 people (2024 Census estimate, +6.9% since 2020)
676 square miles of land · 126 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.
123 active community water systems list Bulloch County in the area they serve, reporting 80,514 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| STATESBORO groundwater · local government · GA0310004 | 36,846 served |
| GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY groundwater · state · GA0310006 | 20,357 served |
| BROOKLET WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · GA0310000 | 1,456 served |
| BURKHALTER - SHADOWBROOK -TALON'S LAKE groundwater · private · GA0310232 | 1,020 served |
| PORTAL WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · GA0310002 | 879 served |
| GROVE LAKES SUBDIVISION groundwater · private · GA0310016 | 855 served |
| FOREST HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION groundwater · private · GA0310015 | 835 served |
| COUNTRYSIDE-CYPRESS CROSSING-HAZELWOOD groundwater · private · GA0310274 | 697 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 364 people were held in Bulloch County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 364.
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 Bulloch County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $165.1 million — $154.8 million to run schools, about $14,007 per student, plus $9.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $70.2 million local (mostly property tax), $79.7 million state, $24.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $17.8 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 Bulloch County about $33.2 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
139 bridges in Bulloch County: 107 in good condition, 30 fair, and 2 poor (1.4%). “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.
| NEVIL DENMARK RD over MANN BRANCH · built 1951 | 1,960 vehicles a day |
| CYPRESS LAKE ROAD over DRY BRANCH · built 1970 | 1,081 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $31.8 million of work in Bulloch County in fiscal 2025, about $392 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 Bulloch 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 Bulloch County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Evans County (19 mi) · Candler County (19 mi) · Effingham County (23 mi) · Screven County (25 mi) · Tattnall County (30 mi) · Jenkins County (31 mi).