101,390 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.8% since 2020)
510 square miles of land · 199 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.
4 active community water systems list Floyd County in the area they serve, reporting 98,177 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| FLOYD COUNTY surface water · local government · GA1150001 | 46,143 served |
| ROME surface water · local government · GA1150002 | 45,586 served |
| CAVE SPRING groundwater · local government · GA1150000 | 4,248 served |
| BERRY COLLEGE surface water · private · GA1150003 | 2,200 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 519 people were held in Floyd County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 548.
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 Floyd County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $143.7 million — $129.5 million to run schools, about $14,510 per student, plus $13.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $68.9 million local (mostly property tax), $67.5 million state, $20.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $11.8 million.
Spent $95.1 million — $93.3 million to run schools, about $14,188 per student, plus $755,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $38.4 million local (mostly property tax), $47 million state, $13.5 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 Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Floyd County about $39.7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
202 bridges in Floyd County: 116 in good condition, 79 fair, and 7 poor (3.5%). “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.
| CALHOUN ROAD over ZUBER CREEK · built 1931 | 6,480 vehicles a day |
| KINGSTON AVENUE over NS RAILROAD (719097 · built 1978 | 4,700 vehicles a day |
| PLAINVILLE ROAD over WOODWARD CREEK · built 1926 | 720 vehicles a day |
| BELLS FERRY ROAD over WOODWARD CREEK · built 1938 | 290 vehicles a day |
| L. TEXAS VALLEY RD over ARMUCHEE CREEK · built 1935 | 230 vehicles a day |
| GAINES ROAD over WOODWARD CREEK TRIB · built 1991 | 150 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $8.8 million of work in Floyd County in fiscal 2025, about $89 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 Floyd 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 Floyd County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Chattooga County (16 mi) · Polk County (19 mi) · Bartow County (21 mi) · Gordon County (26 mi) · Cherokee County, AL (28 mi) · Paulding County (31 mi).