66,035 people (2024 Census estimate, +4.0% since 2020)
814 square miles of land · 81 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 Georgetown County in the area they serve, reporting 73,610 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| GCWSD WACCAMAW NECK (SC2220010) surface water · local government · SC2220010 | 41,300 served |
| GEORGETOWN CITY OF (SC2210001) surface water · local government · SC2210001 | 9,092 served |
| GEORGETOWN RURAL COMM WA (2220001) groundwater · local government · SC2220001 | 4,941 served |
| GCWSD KILSOCK WATER SYS (SC2220002) groundwater · local government · SC2220002 | 4,417 served |
| ANDREWS TOWN OF (SC2210003) groundwater · local government · SC2210003 | 3,450 served |
| GCWSD CARVERS BAY (SC2220013) groundwater · local government · SC2220013 | 3,133 served |
| BROWNS FERRY WATER CO (SC2220003) groundwater · private · SC2220003 | 2,550 served |
| GCWSD GARDEN CITY POINT (SC2220011) buys surface water · local government · SC2220011 | 1,790 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 98 people were held in Georgetown County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 270 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 139.
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 Georgetown County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $162.2 million — $128.9 million to run schools, about $15,287 per student, plus $25.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $74.9 million local (mostly property tax), $65.5 million state, $22.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $182 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 Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Georgetown County about $90.2 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
114 bridges in Georgetown County: 39 in good condition, 68 fair, and 7 poor (6.1%). “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.
| US 17 over WACCAMAW RIVER · built 1966 | 25,600 vehicles a day |
| US 17 SB over NORTH SANTEE RIVER · built 1951 | 5,100 vehicles a day |
| S-22-46 over PAWLEYS CREEK · built 1986 | 3,000 vehicles a day |
| S-22-266 over S. CROSSWAY #2 · built 2002 | 2,200 vehicles a day |
| S-22-179 over BLACK RIVER · built 1976 | 1,650 vehicles a day |
| SC 261 over PENNY ROYAL CREEK · built 1948 | 1,100 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $7.3 million of work in Georgetown County in fiscal 2025, about $115 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 South Carolina 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 Georgetown 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 Georgetown County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Williamsburg County (28 mi) · Horry County (39 mi) · Berkeley County (41 mi) · Marion County (46 mi) · Florence County (48 mi) · Clarendon County (56 mi).