27,498 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.5% since 2020)
179 square miles of land · 154 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.
4 active community water systems list Stephens County in the area they serve, reporting 31,576 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| TOCCOA surface water · local government · GA2570001 | 28,711 served |
| MARTIN groundwater · local government · GA2570000 | 1,769 served |
| TOCCOA FALLS COLLEGE groundwater · private · GA2570011 | 850 served |
| LAKE HARBOR SHORES SUBDIVISION buys surface water · private · GA2570029 | 246 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 195 people were held in Stephens County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 166.
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 Stephens County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $52.7 million — $50.6 million to run schools, about $13,185 per student, plus $2.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $20.6 million local (mostly property tax), $28.5 million state, $8.7 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 Stephens County about $8.3 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
67 bridges in Stephens County: 24 in good condition, 37 fair, and 6 poor (9.0%). “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.
| POND STREET over NORFOLK SOUTH RAILROAD · built 1950 | 2,210 vehicles a day |
| FERNSIDE DRIVE over WARDS CREEK · built 1956 | 1,990 vehicles a day |
| Hanson Road over TOCCOA CREEK TRIB · built 1938 | 1,542 vehicles a day |
| BROOKHAVEN CIR over EASTANOLLEE CREEK · built 1963 | 1,090 vehicles a day |
| TOWER ROAD over EASTANOLLEE CREEK · built 1964 | 390 vehicles a day |
| REDROOT ROAD over BROAD RIVER · built 1954 | 77 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $11.5 million of work in Stephens County in fiscal 2025, about $428 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 Stephens 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 Stephens County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Franklin County (13 mi) · Habersham County (14 mi) · Banks County (18 mi) · Oconee County, SC (19 mi) · Hart County (23 mi) · Rabun County (24 mi).