8,683 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.3% since 2020)
471 square miles of land · 18 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.
7 active community water systems list Hancock County in the area they serve, reporting 7,916 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| SPARTA surface water · local government · GA1410001 | 2,903 served |
| HANCOCK CO-GA15E/DEVEREAU WS buys surface water · local government · GA1410019 | 1,512 served |
| SCENIC SHORES SUBDIVISION groundwater · private · GA1410007 | 1,153 served |
| HOLIDAY SHORES SUBDIVISION groundwater · private · GA1410016 | 813 served |
| WOODLAND VALLEY SUBDIVISION groundwater · private · GA1410004 | 694 served |
| ISLAND CREEK / GLENWOOD SUBDIVISION groundwater · private · GA1410006 | 681 served |
| MAYFIELD WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · GA1410002 | 160 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 Hancock County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 18.
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 Hancock County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $19.8 million — $18 million to run schools, about $25,667 per student, plus $1.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.4 million local (mostly property tax), $4.9 million state, $5.5 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Hancock County about $2.9 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
64 bridges in Hancock County: 49 in good condition, 9 fair, and 6 poor (9.4%). “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.
| SR 16 over OGEECHEE RIVER · built 1969 | 1,530 vehicles a day |
| WATER WORKS RD over CSX RAILROAD (279806B) · built 1989 | 250 vehicles a day |
| TUCKER ROAD over SANDY RUN CREEK · built 1950 | 158 vehicles a day |
| HAMBURG ST PK RD over DRY CREEK · built 1955 | 70 vehicles a day |
| TWIN POND ROAD over LITTLE OGEECHEE RIVER · built 1950 | 30 vehicles a day |
| RABUN ROAD over OGEECHEE RIVER · built 1955 | 10 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $2.7 million of work in Hancock County in fiscal 2025, about $311 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 Hancock 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 Hancock County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Baldwin County (21 mi) · Warren County (21 mi) · Taliaferro County (21 mi) · Putnam County (22 mi) · Glascock County (23 mi) · Greene County (23 mi).