10,464 people (2024 Census estimate, +5.4% since 2020)
197 square miles of land · 53 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.
8 active community water systems list Lanier County in the area they serve, reporting 4,692 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| LAKELAND groundwater · local government · GA1730000 | 2,718 served |
| SJ WATER, LLC groundwater · private · GA1730014 | 764 served |
| BOYETTE FARMS groundwater · private · GA1730019 | 305 served |
| MILL POND PLANTATION groundwater · private · GA1730016 | 302 served |
| BANKS LAKE POINTE SUBDIVISION groundwater · private · GA1730015 | 205 served |
| WESTWIND FARM ESTATES MHP groundwater · private · GA1730013 | 176 served |
| GRAND BAY RIDGE S/D groundwater · private · GA1730012 | 149 served |
| PALMETTO PINES PLANTATION groundwater · private · GA1730018 | 73 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 Lanier County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 0.
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 Lanier County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $30.9 million — $22.9 million to run schools, about $13,284 per student, plus $8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.8 million local (mostly property tax), $16 million state, $7.7 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 Lanier County about $3.2 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
28 bridges in Lanier County: 20 in good condition, 8 fair, and 0 poor (0.0%). “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.
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $171,790 of work in Lanier County in fiscal 2025, about $17 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 Lanier 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 Lanier County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Lowndes County (19 mi) · Berrien County (20 mi) · Atkinson County (21 mi) · Clinch County (23 mi) · Cook County (23 mi) · Echols County (24 mi).