122,082 people (2024 Census estimate, +3.1% since 2020)
497 square miles of land · 246 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.
68 active community water systems list Lowndes County in the area they serve, reporting 99,111 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| VALDOSTA groundwater · local government · GA1850002 | 48,959 served |
| LOWNDES CO.-NORTH LOWNDES CO. WS groundwater · local government · GA1850016 | 16,656 served |
| LOWNDES CO-SOUTH LOWNDES groundwater · local government · GA1850019 | 8,664 served |
| USAF-MOODY AIR FORCE BASE-MAIN groundwater · federal · GA1850125 | 5,325 served |
| HAHIRA groundwater · local government · GA1850000 | 3,572 served |
| REMERTON buys groundwater · local government · GA1850064 | 1,928 served |
| MULLIGAN ROAD WATER SUPPLY groundwater · private · GA1850284 | 905 served |
| OAK STREET SUBDIVISION groundwater · private · GA1850022 | 829 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 720 people were held in Lowndes County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 594.
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 Lowndes County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $153.1 million — $128.9 million to run schools, about $12,014 per student, plus $23.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $60.2 million local (mostly property tax), $78.8 million state, $21.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $14.5 million.
Spent $120.1 million — $107.6 million to run schools, about $12,983 per student, plus $10.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $57.9 million local (mostly property tax), $51.6 million state, $33.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $58.1 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: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Lowndes County about $29.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
130 bridges in Lowndes County: 110 in good condition, 18 fair, and 2 poor (1.5%). “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.
| OLD QUITMAN ROAD over CSX RAILROAD · built 1928 | 540 vehicles a day |
| JUMPING GULLEY RD over BEVEL CREEK · built 1972 | 170 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $52.6 million of work in Lowndes County in fiscal 2025, about $445 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 Lowndes 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 Lowndes County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Brooks County (19 mi) · Lanier County (19 mi) · Echols County (24 mi) · Cook County (24 mi) · Madison County, FL (29 mi) · Hamilton County, FL (30 mi).