27,601 people (2024 Census estimate, +11.3% since 2020)
322 square miles of land · 86 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 Union County in the area they serve, reporting 26,096 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| NOTLA WATER AUTHORITY surface water · local government · GA2910003 | 16,518 served |
| COOSA WATER AUTHORITY groundwater · local government · GA2910006 | 4,407 served |
| BLAIRSVILLE surface water · local government · GA2910000 | 4,035 served |
| WILSON MTN SUBDIVISION groundwater · private · GA2910051 | 348 served |
| THE MOUNTAIN S/D groundwater · private · GA2910068 | 343 served |
| BRYANT COVE groundwater · private · GA2910062 | 176 served |
| SMOKEY MOUNTAIN ESTATES SUBD groundwater · private · GA2910104 | 127 served |
| SOUTHER MILL ESTATES groundwater · private · GA2910059 | 115 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 52 people were held in Union County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 48.
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 Union County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $52.5 million — $46.4 million to run schools, about $15,355 per student, plus $6.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $31.8 million local (mostly property tax), $21.5 million state, $5.6 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: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Union County about $11.6 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.
86 bridges in Union County: 35 in good condition, 49 fair, and 2 poor (2.3%). “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.
| HILL ROAD over WOLF CREEK · built 1981 | 490 vehicles a day |
| OLD BALD MTN ROAD over STINK CREEK · built 1942 | 323 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $-74,947,266 of work in Union County in fiscal 2025, about $-3,043 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 Union 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 Union County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Towns County (15 mi) · Lumpkin County (18 mi) · Fannin County (19 mi) · White County (19 mi) · Clay County, NC (20 mi) · Cherokee County, NC (21 mi).