Foster care by county

Children in foster care per 10,000 children, on March 31. 2026 compared with 2025. Fair ●●○

Select a column heading to sort. Blank means the publisher did not report that area; "suppressed" means the publisher withheld a small number; "not shown" means this site withheld it (fewer than 30 survey respondents).

County figures describe where students live. To find a school district's county, use the district-to-county table; a city district is matched to the county where its office is.

County	2026	2025	Change	Years with data
Appling	97	78	+19	2
Atkinson	26	30	-4	2
Bacon	246	170	+76	2
Baker	64	61	+3	2
Baldwin	87	102	-15	2
Banks	58	47	+11	2
Barrow	28	39	-11	2
Bartow	37	35	+2	2
Ben Hill	222	273	-51	2
Berrien	265	206	+59	2
Bibb	48	59	-11	2
Bleckley	106	83	+23	2
Brantley	123	125	-2	2
Brooks	64	60	+4	2
Bryan	20	14	+6	2
Bulloch	20	14	+6	2
Burke	96	75	+21	2
Butts	55	79	-24	2
Calhoun	25	12	+13	2
Camden	48	63	-15	2
Candler	6	10	-4	2
Carroll	39	55	-16	2
Catoosa	45	53	-8	2
Charlton	198	143	+55	2
Chatham	38	46	-8	2
Chattahoochee	80	52	+28	2
Chattooga	52	100	-48	2
Cherokee	48	54	-6	2
Clarke	110	81	+29	2
Clay	18	18	0	2
Clayton	38	37	+1	2
Clinch	103	127	-24	2
Cobb	23	25	-2	2
Coffee	131	167	-36	2
Colquitt	35	32	+3	2
Columbia	11	13	-2	2
Cook	181	161	+20	2
Coweta	19	27	-8	2
Crawford	64	67	-3	2
Crisp	213	218	-5	2
Dade	51	63	-12	2
Dawson	51	43	+8	2
DeKalb	32	38	-6	2
Decatur	40	57	-17	2
Dodge	98	109	-11	2
Dooly	97	115	-18	2
Dougherty	109	123	-14	2
Douglas	37	38	-1	2
Early	41	27	+14	2
Echols	0	23	-23	2
Effingham	20	19	+1	2
Elbert	74	53	+21	2
Emanuel	32	34	-2	2
Evans	39	42	-3	2
Fannin	54	78	-24	2
Fayette	6	5	+1	2
Floyd	50	44	+6	2
Forsyth	11	11	0	2
Franklin	40	50	-10	2
Fulton	28	24	+4	2
Gilmer	60	80	-20	2
Glascock	72	30	+42	2
Glynn	49	48	+1	2
Gordon	38	57	-19	2
Grady	19	19	0	2
Greene	114	87	+27	2
Gwinnett	13	15	-2	2
Habersham	44	57	-13	2
Hall	40	46	-6	2
Hancock	141	198	-57	2
Haralson	35	51	-16	2
Harris	29	28	+1	2
Hart	69	49	+20	2
Heard	37	55	-18	2
Henry	14	11	+3	2
Houston	25	30	-5	2
Irwin	111	127	-16	2
Jackson	15	17	-2	2
Jasper	29	28	+1	2
Jeff Davis	69	60	+9	2
Jefferson	100	129	-29	2
Jenkins	66	83	-17	2
Johnson	6	18	-12	2
Jones	20	13	+7	2
Lamar	55	81	-26	2
Lanier	114	94	+20	2
Laurens	52	48	+4	2
Lee	25	41	-16	2
Liberty	36	42	-6	2
Lincoln	57	58	-1	2
Long	48	31	+17	2
Lowndes	116	113	+3	2
Lumpkin	69	74	-5	2
Macon	35	59	-24	2
Madison	52	47	+5	2
Marion	29	0	+29	2
McDuffie	70	54	+16	2
McIntosh	77	94	-17	2
Meriwether	67	59	+8	2
Miller	41	72	-31	2
Mitchell	26	34	-8	2
Monroe	30	40	-10	2
Montgomery	35	72	-37	2
Morgan	33	28	+5	2
Murray	69	87	-18	2
Muscogee	90	104	-14	2
Newton	22	25	-3	2
Oconee	11	19	-8	2
Oglethorpe	25	20	+5	2
Paulding	21	16	+5	2
Peach	37	53	-16	2
Pickens	55	48	+7	2
Pierce	308	250	+58	2
Pike	6	8	-2	2
Polk	60	55	+5	2
Pulaski	86	80	+6	2
Putnam	38	31	+7	2
Quitman	190	144	+46	2
Rabun	94	92	+2	2
Randolph	31	78	-47	2
Richmond	90	96	-6	2
Rockdale	23	33	-10	2
Schley	58	67	-9	2
Screven	96	116	-20	2
Seminole	29	29	0	2
Spalding	46	52	-6	2
Stephens	48	91	-43	2
Stewart	107	72	+35	2
Sumter	90	117	-27	2
Talbot	57	67	-10	2
Taliaferro	0	0	0	2
Tattnall	36	59	-23	2
Taylor	135	107	+28	2
Telfair	111	154	-43	2
Terrell	128	110	+18	2
Thomas	34	40	-6	2
Tift	89	100	-11	2
Toombs	31	36	-5	2
Towns	77	86	-9	2
Treutlen	43	43	0	2
Troup	34	38	-4	2
Turner	74	101	-27	2
Twiggs	70	148	-78	2
Union	83	75	+8	2
Upson	103	76	+27	2
Walker	75	87	-12	2
Walton	40	41	-1	2
Ware	129	142	-13	2
Warren	92	50	+42	2
Washington	140	203	-63	2
Wayne	25	24	+1	2
Webster	147	56	+91	2
Wheeler	9	52	-43	2
White	41	70	-29	2
Whitfield	39	42	-3	2
Wilcox	64	176	-112	2
Wilkes	30	59	-29	2
Wilkinson	35	57	-22	2
Worth	86	60	+26	2

Source: Federal AFCARS data via Fostering Court Improvement, Georgia county summary. Georgia Appleseed holds a contract with the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services. The figures here come from the federal foster-care data file as published by Fostering Court Improvement and are shown without adjustment. DFCS publishes no county-level data files of its own, which is why the federal data file is used. The county file reports two March 31 snapshots; earlier years will accumulate as the ledger's monthly pull continues.