20,262 people (2024 Census estimate, −2.3% since 2020)
571 square miles of land · 36 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.
11 active community water systems list Worth County in the area they serve, reporting 10,139 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| SYLVESTER groundwater · local government · GA3210003 | 7,076 served |
| POULAN groundwater · local government · GA3210001 | 1,072 served |
| SUMNER groundwater · local government · GA3210002 | 662 served |
| WARWICK groundwater · local government · GA3210004 | 408 served |
| WORTHY MANOR SUBDIVISION groundwater · private · GA3210012 | 400 served |
| WOODCREST SUBDIVISION groundwater · private · GA3210043 | 176 served |
| REDROCK ESTATES groundwater · private · GA3210044 | 140 served |
| ORCHARD HILL ESTATES groundwater · private · GA3210019 | 68 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 0 people were held in Worth County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 0.
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 Worth County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $38.9 million — $37.5 million to run schools, about $12,012 per student, plus $537,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $13.5 million local (mostly property tax), $22 million state, $11 million federal. Long-term debt: $17.9 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 Worth County about $8.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
125 bridges in Worth County: 110 in good condition, 15 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 $41,978 of work in Worth County in fiscal 2025, about $2 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 Worth 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 Worth County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Turner County (18 mi) · Tift County (20 mi) · Dougherty County (21 mi) · Lee County (25 mi) · Colquitt County (25 mi) · Crisp County (26 mi).