Counties in Georgia by share of population aged 65 and over
Towns County had the highest share of population aged 65 and over of 159 counties in 2022, at 38.2%. Chattahoochee County had the lowest, at 5.7%. The median was 18.8% and the figure for Georgia was 15.5%. Source: the U.S. Census Bureau.
Top 40 counties, 2022
Full ranking
| Rank | Counties | 2022 (%) | Change on 2021 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Towns County | 38.2 | +1.3 pts |
| 2 | Union County | 34.5 | +0.4 pts |
| 3 | Quitman County | 31.9 | +0.3 pts |
| 4 | Greene County | 31.1 | +0.8 pts |
| 5 | Fannin County | 30.8 | +0.6 pts |
| 6 | Rabun County | 29.6 | +0.3 pts |
| 7 | Talbot County | 27.6 | +0.6 pts |
| 8 | Gilmer County | 27.5 | +0.4 pts |
| 9 | Clay County | 27.3 | +0.4 pts |
| 10 | Taliaferro County | 27.2 | -0.8 pts |
| 11 | McIntosh County | 26.8 | +0.5 pts |
| 12 | Twiggs County | 26 | +1.1 pts |
| 13 | Putnam County | 25.9 | +0.5 pts |
| 14 | Lincoln County | 25.8 | +0.7 pts |
| 15 | Hancock County | 25.7 | +1.5 pts |
| 16 | Pickens County | 25.2 | +0.3 pts |
| 17 | Baker County | 24.6 | +1.2 pts |
| 18 | Wilkes County | 24.6 | +0.1 pts |
| 19 | Seminole County | 24.5 | +0.9 pts |
| 20 | Warren County | 24.2 | +1 pts |
| 21 | Webster County | 24.1 | +0.9 pts |
| 22 | White County | 23.7 | +0.5 pts |
| 23 | Glynn County | 23.6 | +0.6 pts |
| 24 | Terrell County | 23.6 | +1 pts |
| 25 | Hart County | 23.5 | -0 pts |
| 26 | Randolph County | 23.2 | +1.1 pts |
| 27 | Brooks County | 23 | +0.9 pts |
| 28 | Stephens County | 22.7 | +0.3 pts |
| 29 | Meriwether County | 22.4 | +0.4 pts |
| 30 | Miller County | 22.4 | +0.6 pts |
| 31 | Screven County | 22.4 | +0.6 pts |
| 32 | Elbert County | 22.3 | +0.2 pts |
| 33 | Wilkinson County | 21.8 | +0.6 pts |
| 34 | Taylor County | 21.7 | +0.5 pts |
| 35 | Early County | 21.7 | +0.3 pts |
| 36 | Jefferson County | 21.3 | +0.6 pts |
| 37 | Dooly County | 21 | +0.9 pts |
| 38 | Worth County | 20.9 | +0.6 pts |
| 39 | Crawford County | 20.9 | +0.4 pts |
| 40 | Morgan County | 20.9 | +0.4 pts |
| 41 | Fayette County | 20.9 | +0.6 pts |
| 42 | Dade County | 20.9 | +0.6 pts |
| 43 | Marion County | 20.7 | +0.5 pts |
| 44 | McDuffie County | 20.6 | +0.6 pts |
| 45 | Crisp County | 20.5 | +0.1 pts |
| 46 | Mitchell County | 20.4 | +0.7 pts |
| 47 | Pulaski County | 20.4 | -0.4 pts |
| 48 | Macon County | 20.3 | +0.8 pts |
| 49 | Stewart County | 20.3 | +1.4 pts |
| 50 | Dawson County | 20.3 | +0.2 pts |
| 51 | Jenkins County | 20.2 | +0.6 pts |
| 52 | Upson County | 20.2 | +0.2 pts |
| 53 | Glascock County | 20.1 | -0.2 pts |
| 54 | Washington County | 20 | +0.7 pts |
| 55 | Grady County | 20 | +0.4 pts |
| 56 | Thomas County | 19.9 | +0.6 pts |
| 57 | Oglethorpe County | 19.8 | +0.3 pts |
| 58 | Johnson County | 19.8 | +0.2 pts |
| 59 | Monroe County | 19.7 | +0.2 pts |
| 60 | Harris County | 19.7 | +0.6 pts |
| 61 | Habersham County | 19.6 | +0.2 pts |
| 62 | Ben Hill County | 19.6 | +0.3 pts |
| 63 | Burke County | 19.5 | +0.7 pts |
| 64 | Wilcox County | 19.5 | +0.4 pts |
| 65 | Spalding County | 19.4 | +0.2 pts |
| 66 | Irwin County | 19.4 | +0.8 pts |
| 67 | Franklin County | 19.4 | +0.1 pts |
| 68 | Dodge County | 19.3 | +0.5 pts |
| 69 | Candler County | 19.3 | -0 pts |
| 70 | Catoosa County | 19.3 | +0.3 pts |
| 71 | Ware County | 19.2 | +0.3 pts |
| 72 | Walker County | 19.2 | +0.4 pts |
| 73 | Lumpkin County | 19.2 | -0.3 pts |
| 74 | Sumter County | 19.1 | +0.4 pts |
| 75 | Laurens County | 19 | +0.2 pts |
| 76 | Appling County | 19 | +0.4 pts |
| 77 | Turner County | 19 | +0.3 pts |
| 78 | Chattooga County | 18.9 | +0.3 pts |
| 79 | Decatur County | 18.9 | +0.4 pts |
| 80 | Jones County | 18.8 | +0.4 pts |
| 81 | Clinch County | 18.8 | +0.6 pts |
| 82 | Pierce County | 18.6 | +0.4 pts |
| 83 | Lamar County | 18.6 | +0.2 pts |
| 84 | Bleckley County | 18.4 | +0.5 pts |
| 85 | Treutlen County | 18.4 | 0 pts |
| 86 | Madison County | 18.3 | +0.1 pts |
| 87 | Dougherty County | 18.3 | +0.1 pts |
| 88 | Toombs County | 18.3 | +0.4 pts |
| 89 | Calhoun County | 18.2 | +0.7 pts |
| 90 | Evans County | 18.2 | +0.6 pts |
| 91 | Baldwin County | 18.2 | +0.4 pts |
| 92 | Emanuel County | 18 | +0.2 pts |
| 93 | Berrien County | 18 | +0.3 pts |
| 94 | Peach County | 17.7 | +0.1 pts |
| 95 | Jasper County | 17.7 | -0 pts |
| 96 | Wayne County | 17.7 | +0.1 pts |
| 97 | Banks County | 17.7 | -0.1 pts |
| 98 | Cook County | 17.6 | +0.1 pts |
| 99 | Floyd County | 17.6 | +0.1 pts |
| 100 | Bibb County | 17.4 | +0.3 pts |
| 101 | Bacon County | 17.4 | -0.1 pts |
| 102 | Montgomery County | 17.4 | +0.3 pts |
| 103 | Brantley County | 17.4 | +0.4 pts |
| 104 | Colquitt County | 17.3 | +0.2 pts |
| 105 | Schley County | 17.2 | +0.4 pts |
| 106 | Polk County | 17.1 | +0.2 pts |
| 107 | Oconee County | 17 | +0.7 pts |
| 108 | Troup County | 16.9 | +0.3 pts |
| 109 | Haralson County | 16.9 | -0.1 pts |
| 110 | Hall County | 16.9 | +0.3 pts |
| 111 | Chatham County | 16.9 | +0.2 pts |
| 112 | Heard County | 16.9 | +0.3 pts |
| 113 | Walton County | 16.8 | +0.3 pts |
| 114 | Tift County | 16.8 | +0.3 pts |
| 115 | Cherokee County | 16.6 | +0.5 pts |
| 116 | Telfair County | 16.5 | +0.4 pts |
| 117 | Gordon County | 16.4 | +0.2 pts |
| 118 | Jeff Davis County | 16.3 | +0.2 pts |
| 119 | Butts County | 16.3 | -0.3 pts |
| 120 | Charlton County | 16.2 | +0.7 pts |
| 121 | Pike County | 16.2 | +0.2 pts |
| 122 | Murray County | 16.2 | +0.3 pts |
| 123 | Rockdale County | 16.1 | +0.3 pts |
| 124 | Richmond County | 16.1 | +0.4 pts |
| 125 | Echols County | 16 | +1 pts |
| 126 | Coweta County | 15.9 | +0.4 pts |
| 127 | Muscogee County | 15.9 | +0.6 pts |
| 128 | Camden County | 15.7 | +0.6 pts |
| 129 | Bartow County | 15.6 | +0.3 pts |
| 130 | Wheeler County | 15.4 | +1.3 pts |
| 131 | Lee County | 15.4 | +0.6 pts |
| 132 | Tattnall County | 15.3 | +0.3 pts |
| 133 | Columbia County | 15.2 | +0.4 pts |
| 134 | Jackson County | 15.2 | +0.2 pts |
| 135 | Carroll County | 15.2 | +0.1 pts |
| 136 | Whitfield County | 14.9 | +0.2 pts |
| 137 | Lanier County | 14.8 | +0.6 pts |
| 138 | Atkinson County | 14.8 | +0.6 pts |
| 139 | Newton County | 14.5 | +0.3 pts |
| 140 | Houston County | 14.5 | +0.4 pts |
| 141 | Coffee County | 14.4 | +0.2 pts |
| 142 | Lowndes County | 14.1 | +0.4 pts |
| 143 | Cobb County | 14 | +0.4 pts |
| 144 | Barrow County | 13.7 | +0.2 pts |
| 145 | DeKalb County | 13.7 | +0.4 pts |
| 146 | Effingham County | 13.4 | +0.4 pts |
| 147 | Forsyth County | 13.1 | +0.3 pts |
| 148 | Douglas County | 12.9 | +0.2 pts |
| 149 | Henry County | 12.9 | +0.2 pts |
| 150 | Fulton County | 12.9 | +0.2 pts |
| 151 | Bulloch County | 12.8 | +0.2 pts |
| 152 | Clarke County | 12.8 | +0.4 pts |
| 153 | Paulding County | 12.3 | +0.4 pts |
| 154 | Bryan County | 12.1 | +0.4 pts |
| 155 | Gwinnett County | 11.9 | +0.4 pts |
| 156 | Clayton County | 11.4 | +0.5 pts |
| 157 | Liberty County | 10 | +0.4 pts |
| 158 | Long County | 9.2 | -0.1 pts |
| 159 | Chattahoochee County | 5.7 | +0.4 pts |
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About this ranking
Residents aged 65 or over as a percentage of total population. Spain: 1 January, INE annual census. United States: 1 July, Census Bureau population estimates. World Bank figures for other countries and the World refer to mid-year.
Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the counties are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.
How to cite
U.S. Census Bureau. Population Estimates Program, county population by age and sex (cc-est agesex): residents aged 65 and over as a percentage of the total, 1 July; states and the nation summed from counties. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest/datasets/2020-2025/counties/asrh/cc-est2025-agesex-all.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-09.
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Questions
Which county has the highest share of population aged 65 and over?
Towns County, with 38.2% in 2022, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Which county has the lowest share of population aged 65 and over?
Chattahoochee County, with 5.7% in 2022.
Where does this ranking come from?
Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, county population by age and sex (cc-est agesex): residents aged 65 and over as a percentage of the total, 1 July; states and the nation summed from counties. Retrieved 2026-10-09.
Population aged 65 and over: other rankings
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- Regions of Germany (NUTS 2)
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- Regions of Poland (NUTS 2)
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