20,152 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.5% since 2020)
351 square miles of land · 57 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.
6 active community water systems list Elbert County in the area they serve, reporting 9,461 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| ELBERTON surface water · local government · GA1050001 | 7,800 served |
| BOWMAN WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · GA1050000 | 1,299 served |
| NEWTON`S POINTE SUBDIVISION groundwater · private · GA1050042 | 135 served |
| WHISPERING PINES MHP groundwater · private · GA1050009 | 100 served |
| NANCY HART NURSING CENTER groundwater · private · GA1050013 | 67 served |
| HEARDMONT NURSING HOME groundwater · private · GA1050012 | 60 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 0 people were held in Elbert County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 71.
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 Elbert County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $60.7 million — $44.2 million to run schools, about $14,402 per student, plus $16.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $15.9 million local (mostly property tax), $28.5 million state, $10.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $10 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 Elbert County about $6.9 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.
84 bridges in Elbert County: 34 in good condition, 46 fair, and 4 poor (4.8%). “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.
| SR 368 over CARTERS CREEK · built 1939 | 1,910 vehicles a day |
| SWEET CITY ROAD over DOVE CREEK · built 1915 | 323 vehicles a day |
| TURMAN ROAD over FORK CREEK · built 1956 | 126 vehicles a day |
| CALHOUN ROAD over LITTLE BEAVERDAM CREEK · built 1951 | 126 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $1.5 million of work in Elbert County in fiscal 2025, about $79 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 Elbert 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 Elbert County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Hart County (17 mi) · Madison County (21 mi) · Oglethorpe County (22 mi) · Abbeville County, SC (23 mi) · Wilkes County (24 mi) · Franklin County (28 mi).