25,854 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.6% since 2020)
387 square miles of land · 67 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.
20 active community water systems list Fannin County in the area they serve, reporting 17,002 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MCCAYSVILLE surface water · local government · GA1110001 | 7,020 served |
| BLUE RIDGE WATER SYSTEM surface water · local government · GA1110000 | 6,112 served |
| MORGANTON groundwater · local government · GA1110003 | 1,768 served |
| FANNIN COUNTY USDA - MY MOUNTAIN SD buys surface water · local government · GA1110125 | 559 served |
| FANNIN COUNTY CDBG - FORGE MILL buys surface water · local government · GA1110124 | 246 served |
| FANNIN COUNTY, GEFA - RIVERWALK buys surface water · state · GA1110126 | 187 served |
| MOUNTAIN HIGH SUBDIVISION groundwater · private · GA1110091 | 137 served |
| NECOWA COVE groundwater · private · GA1110105 | 135 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 55 people were held in Fannin County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 59.
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 Fannin County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $49.7 million — $45.2 million to run schools, about $16,158 per student, plus $4.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $36.9 million local (mostly property tax), $15.1 million state, $7.4 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 Fannin County about $14.4 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
108 bridges in Fannin County: 41 in good condition, 65 fair, and 2 poor (1.9%). “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.
| MADOLA ROAD over FIGHTINGTOWN CREEK · built 1956 | 1,990 vehicles a day |
| WINDING DR over SUGAR CREEK · built 2006 | 323 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $5.6 million of work in Fannin County in fiscal 2025, about $220 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 Fannin 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 Fannin County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Gilmer County (14 mi) · Union County (19 mi) · Polk County, TN (21 mi) · Cherokee County, NC (24 mi) · Murray County (24 mi) · Lumpkin County (27 mi).