21,439 people (2024 Census estimate, +4.0% since 2020)
501 square miles of land · 43 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.
9 active community water systems list Meriwether County in the area they serve, reporting 12,890 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MANCHESTER surface water · local government · GA1990003 | 5,397 served |
| LUTHERSVILLE groundwater · local government · GA1990002 | 2,468 served |
| GREENVILLE buys surface water · local government · GA1990000 | 2,013 served |
| WARM SPRINGS groundwater · local government · GA1990004 | 1,017 served |
| WOODBURY surface water · local government · GA1990005 | 961 served |
| ROOSEVELT WARM SPRINGS INST. groundwater · state · GA1990009 | 493 served |
| LONE OAK WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · GA1990001 | 307 served |
| GAY groundwater · local government · GA1990044 | 167 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 71 people were held in Meriwether County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 70.
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 Meriwether County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $40.1 million — $37.7 million to run schools, about $16,230 per student, plus $2.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $17.2 million local (mostly property tax), $16.3 million state, $9.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $15.7 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 Meriwether County about $4.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
133 bridges in Meriwether County: 49 in good condition, 66 fair, and 18 poor (13.5%). “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.
| SR 362 over CSX RAILROAD · built 1960 | 2,650 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY LINE ROAD over BLUE CREEK · built 1965 | 1,700 vehicles a day |
| HARRY HARDY ROAD over SULPHUR CREEK · built 1950 | 780 vehicles a day |
| FLAT SHOALS ROAD over FLINT RIVER · built 1958 | 470 vehicles a day |
| MITCHAM ROAD over CSX RAILROAD · built 1945 | 350 vehicles a day |
| MASSENGALES MILL over RED OAK CREEK · built 1940 | 220 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $14.7 million of work in Meriwether County in fiscal 2025, about $715 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 Meriwether 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 Meriwether County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Pike County (16 mi) · Troup County (21 mi) · Coweta County (23 mi) · Talbot County (24 mi) · Upson County (24 mi) · Harris County (25 mi).