32,404 people (2024 Census estimate, +7.9% since 2020)
282 square miles of land · 115 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 Haralson County in the area they serve, reporting 25,310 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| HARALSON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY surface water · local government · GA1430007 | 12,220 served |
| BREMEN surface water · local government · GA1430000 | 6,200 served |
| TALLAPOOSA buys surface water · local government · GA1430002 | 4,680 served |
| BUCHANAN buys surface water · local government · GA1430001 | 1,326 served |
| WACO buys surface water · local government · GA1430010 | 884 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 129 people were held in Haralson County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 121.
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 Haralson County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $57.6 million — $51.3 million to run schools, about $14,954 per student, plus $5.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $16.5 million local (mostly property tax), $30.8 million state, $10.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $8 million.
Spent $39.1 million — $27.9 million to run schools, about $11,851 per student, plus $10.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11.9 million local (mostly property tax), $18.6 million state, $1.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $16.4 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 Haralson County about $7.7 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.
93 bridges in Haralson County: 60 in good condition, 30 fair, and 3 poor (3.2%). “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 100 over TALLAPOOSA RIVER · built 1952 | 4,960 vehicles a day |
| BROAD STREET over TALLAPOOSA RIVER · built 1969 | 680 vehicles a day |
| BEACH CREEK ROAD over BEACH CREEK · built 2000 | 126 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $6.3 million of work in Haralson County in fiscal 2025, about $210 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 Haralson 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 Haralson County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Polk County (14 mi) · Carroll County (17 mi) · Cleburne County, AL (19 mi) · Paulding County (22 mi) · Douglas County (27 mi) · Cherokee County, AL (31 mi).