Twiggs County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,022. The county seat is Jeffersonville. The county was created on December 14, 1809, and named for American Revolutionary War general John Twiggs.

Twiggs County is included in the Macon, GA metropolitan statistical area. The Twiggs County Courthouse is located in Jeffersonville.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 363 square miles (940 km), of which 358 square miles (930 km) is land and 4.2 square miles (11 km) (1.2%) is water.

Due to its location on the fall line, the county boasts a diverse geography. Northern parts of the county tend to be hillier, being part of the Piedmont region, and southern parts of the county tend to be flatter, being part of the upper Atlantic coastal plain.

The geographical center of Georgia lies in Twiggs County — off Bullard Road near Old Marion.

The southwestern and central portion of Twiggs County, south of Dry Branch and west of Jeffersonville, is located in the Lower Ocmulgee River sub-basin of the Altamaha River basin. A narrow northwestern portion of the county, from just north to southwest of Dry Branch, is located in the Upper Ocmulgee River sub-basin of the Altamaha River basin. The entire eastern edge of the county is located in the Lower Oconee River sub-basin of the same Altamaha River basin, with a small triangular portion of Twiggs County, south of Interstate 16 and west of Danville, located in the Little Ocmulgee River sub-basin of the same larger Altamaha River basin.

• Wilkinson County - northeast
• Laurens County - southeast
• Bleckley County - south
• Houston County - southwest
• Bibb County - west
• Jones County - northwest

• Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (part)

• Allentown (partly in Wilkinson County, Laurens County, and Bleckley County)
• Jeffersonville (county seat)

• Danville (partly in Wilkinson County)

• Dry Branch (partly in Bibb County)

Historical population

Census	Pop.	Note	%±
1810	3,405		—
1820	10,640		212.5%
1830	8,031		−24.5%
1840	8,422		4.9%
1850	8,179		−2.9%
1860	8,320		1.7%
1870	8,545		2.7%
1880	8,918		4.4%
1890	8,195		−8.1%
1900	8,716		6.4%
1910	10,736		23.2%
1920	10,407		−3.1%
1930	8,372		−19.6%
1940	9,117		8.9%
1950	8,308		−8.9%
1960	7,935		−4.5%
1970	8,222		3.6%
1980	9,354		13.8%
1990	9,806		4.8%
2000	10,590		8.0%
2010	9,023		−14.8%
2020	8,022		−11.1%
2023 (est.)	7,691		−4.1%
U.S. Decennial Census 1790-1880 1890-1910 1920-1930 1930-1940 1940-1950 1960-1980 1980-2000 2010

Twiggs County racial composition as of 2020

Race	Num.	Perc.
White (non-Hispanic)	4,487	55.93%
Black or African American (non-Hispanic)	3,099	38.63%
Native American	16	0.2%
Asian	37	0.46%
Other/Mixed	259	3.23%
Hispanic or Latino	124	1.55%

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 8,022 people, 3,044 households, and 1,838 families residing in the county.

The Twiggs County School District is the sole school district in the county. It includes Jefersonville Elementary and Twiggs County Comprehensive Middle/High School.

Private schools:

• Twiggs Academy

• Philip Cook, Confederate general in the Civil War and postbellum U.S. Congressman.
• Darqueze Dennard, cornerback for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League and former cornerback for the Michigan State Spartans football team. He was the winner of the 2013 Jim Thorpe Award.
• Dudley Mays Hughes, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, American politician, farmer and railroad executive.
• Chuck Leavell, an American musician and current tree farmer in Twiggs County, who was a member of The Allman Brothers Band during the height of their 1970s popularity, a founding member of the jazz-rock combo Sea Level, a frequently-employed session musician, and long-time touring member of The Rolling Stones.

United States presidential election results for Twiggs County, Georgia

Year	Republican		Democratic		Third party(ies)
	No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
2024	2,549	57.20%	1,895	42.53%	12	0.27%
2020	2,370	53.33%	2,044	45.99%	30	0.68%
2016	2,035	50.14%	1,971	48.56%	53	1.31%
2012	1,907	45.35%	2,270	53.98%	28	0.67%
2008	2,087	46.15%	2,402	53.12%	33	0.73%
2004	2,112	48.34%	2,220	50.81%	37	0.85%
2000	1,570	43.43%	1,977	54.69%	68	1.88%
1996	958	30.80%	1,927	61.96%	225	7.23%
1992	853	25.15%	2,097	61.82%	442	13.03%
1988	1,261	41.96%	1,730	57.57%	14	0.47%
1984	1,143	39.44%	1,755	60.56%	0	0.00%
1980	747	25.07%	2,213	74.26%	20	0.67%
1976	513	16.94%	2,515	83.06%	0	0.00%
1972	1,363	55.05%	1,113	44.95%	0	0.00%
1968	336	14.51%	812	35.08%	1,167	50.41%
1964	1,178	59.98%	786	40.02%	0	0.00%
1960	263	23.74%	845	76.26%	0	0.00%
1956	168	14.36%	1,002	85.64%	0	0.00%
1952	191	15.03%	1,080	84.97%	0	0.00%
1948	55	6.75%	359	44.05%	401	49.20%
1944	170	27.11%	457	72.89%	0	0.00%
1940	91	11.18%	723	88.82%	0	0.00%
1936	57	10.38%	491	89.44%	1	0.18%
1932	15	2.26%	646	97.29%	3	0.45%
1928	74	11.47%	571	88.53%	0	0.00%
1924	39	8.02%	417	85.80%	30	6.17%
1920	44	13.88%	273	86.12%	0	0.00%
1916	15	3.75%	365	91.25%	20	5.00%
1912	3	0.92%	310	95.09%	13	3.99%

• National Register of Historic Places listings in Twiggs County, Georgia
• List of counties in Georgia

• Adiel Sherwood (1860), "Twiggs County", A Gazetteer of Georgia (4th ed.), Georgia – via HathiTrust{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Allen D. Candler; Clement A. Evans, eds. (1906). "Twiggs County". Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 3. Atlanta: State Historical Association. p. 479 – via HathiTrust.

• "Twiggs County", New Georgia Encyclopedia, Georgia Humanities Council
• Digital Public Library of America. Assorted items related to Twiggs County

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