17,711 people (2024 Census estimate, +4.7% since 2020)
370 square miles of land · 48 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.
14 active community water systems list Rabun County in the area they serve, reporting 14,645 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| RABUN COUNTY WATER & SEWER AUTHORITY surface water · local government · GA2410118 | 10,276 served |
| SKY VALLEY groundwater · local government · GA2410053 | 1,820 served |
| SYLVAN LAKE FALLS groundwater · private · GA2410035 | 615 served |
| KINGWOOD WATER SYSTEM buys surface water · private · GA2410006 | 575 served |
| LIFE TEEN COVECREST CAMP groundwater · private · GA2410133 | 332 served |
| DILLARD buys surface water · local government · GA2410138 | 211 served |
| TALLULAH FALLS groundwater · local government · GA2410001 | 169 served |
| COVECREST SUBDIVISION groundwater · private · GA2410097 | 157 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 126 people were held in Rabun County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 124.
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 Rabun County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $47.3 million — $38.5 million to run schools, about $16,978 per student, plus $8.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $32.6 million local (mostly property tax), $11.4 million state, $6.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $18.6 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 Rabun County about $10 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.
118 bridges in Rabun County: 41 in good condition, 72 fair, and 5 poor (4.2%). “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 15 US 23 US over BETTY CREEK · built 1926 | 18,000 vehicles a day |
| SHADYSIDE DRIVE over SCOTT CREEK · built 1968 | 280 vehicles a day |
| TUCKALUGE ROAD over TUCKALUGE CREEK · built 1986 | 25 vehicles a day |
| W.76 LOOP ROAD over TIMPSON CREEK · built 1928 | 20 vehicles a day |
| CHESTER YORK RD over TALLULAH RIVER · built 1985 | 20 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $82.3 million of work in Rabun County in fiscal 2025, about $4,877 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 Rabun 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 Rabun County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Habersham County (19 mi) · Towns County (19 mi) · Macon County, NC (19 mi) · Oconee County, SC (22 mi) · Clay County, NC (23 mi) · Stephens County (24 mi).