25,306 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.5% since 2020)
313 square miles of land · 81 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.
5 active community water systems list Chattooga County in the area they serve, reporting 23,813 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| SUMMERVILLE surface water · local government · GA0550003 | 9,993 served |
| CHATTOOGA COUNTY groundwater · local government · GA0550000 | 9,190 served |
| TRION buys groundwater · local government · GA0550049 | 2,043 served |
| LYERLY buys surface water · local government · GA0550001 | 1,638 served |
| MENLO groundwater · local government · GA0550002 | 949 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 42 people were held in Chattooga County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 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.
2 school districts have their office in Chattooga County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $52.8 million — $35.5 million to run schools, about $13,770 per student, plus $16.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $13.2 million local (mostly property tax), $23.3 million state, $8.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $20.6 million.
Spent $17.3 million — $16.8 million to run schools, about $12,693 per student, plus $405,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4 million local (mostly property tax), $12.4 million state, $1.5 million federal.
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 Chattooga County about $12.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
112 bridges in Chattooga County: 65 in good condition, 36 fair, and 11 poor (9.8%). “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.
| BACK BERRYTON RD over RACCOON CREEK TRIB. · built 1952 | 1,542 vehicles a day |
| OAK HILL ROAD over MOSTELLER CREEK · built 1930 | 1,010 vehicles a day |
| LYERLY DAM ROAD over CHATTOOGA RIVER · built 1957 | 520 vehicles a day |
| NEAL GAP ROAD over TELOGA CREEK · built 1954 | 323 vehicles a day |
| SPRING CREEK RD over SPRING CREEK · built 1932 | 323 vehicles a day |
| CENTER POST ROAD over CHATTOOGA RIVER · built 1958 | 310 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $11.3 million of work in Chattooga County in fiscal 2025, about $453 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 Chattooga 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 Chattooga County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Floyd County (16 mi) · Walker County (18 mi) · DeKalb County, AL (26 mi) · Gordon County (27 mi) · Dade County (28 mi) · Whitfield County (31 mi).