28,972 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.9% since 2020)
483 square miles of land · 60 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.
12 active community water systems list Sumter County in the area they serve, reporting 17,722 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| AMERICUS groundwater · local government · GA2610000 | 15,082 served |
| PLAINS groundwater · local government · GA2610004 | 929 served |
| LESLIE groundwater · local government · GA2610003 | 427 served |
| DESOTO groundwater · local government · GA2610002 | 348 served |
| ANDERSONVILLE groundwater · local government · GA2610001 | 338 served |
| BRIAR PATCH MOBILE HOME PARK groundwater · private · GA2610012 | 162 served |
| SOUTHERN HILLS MHP groundwater · private · GA2610039 | 130 served |
| GRAYSTONE VILLAGE groundwater · private · GA2610045 | 70 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 180 people were held in Sumter County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 149.
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 Sumter County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $58.9 million — $56.7 million to run schools, about $15,611 per student, plus $775,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $22.5 million local (mostly property tax), $25.3 million state, $16 million federal. Long-term debt: $20.5 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 Sumter County about $11.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
81 bridges in Sumter County: 71 in good condition, 10 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 $6.6 million of work in Sumter County in fiscal 2025, about $223 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 Sumter 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 Sumter County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Lee County (16 mi) · Schley County (17 mi) · Webster County (20 mi) · Terrell County (23 mi) · Macon County (24 mi) · Dooly County (24 mi).