According to theU.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 349 square miles (900 km2), of which 342 square miles (890 km2) is land and 7.2 square miles (19 km2) (2.1%) is water.[4]
The eastern half of Baker County is located in the LowerFlint River sub-basin of theACF River Basin (Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin). The western half of the county is located in theIchawaynochaway Creek sub-basin of the same ACF River Basin.[5]
Baker County, Georgia – Racial and ethnic composition Note: the US Census treats Hispanic/Latino as an ethnic category. This table excludes Latinos from the racial categories and assigns them to a separate category. Hispanics/Latinos may be of any race.
As of the2020 census, the county had a population of 2,876 and 788 families residing there. Of the residents, 20.9% were under the age of 18 and 22.8% were 65 years of age or older; the median age was 47.0 years. For every 100 females there were 91.4 males, and for every 100 females age 18 and over there were 89.6 males. 0.0% of residents lived in urban areas and 100.0% lived in rural areas.[20][21][22]
There were 1,187 households in the county, of which 28.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them and 33.9% had a female householder with no spouse or partner present. About 31.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 16.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.[21]
There were 1,447 housing units, of which 18.0% were vacant. Among occupied housing units, 71.2% were owner-occupied and 28.8% were renter-occupied. The homeowner vacancy rate was 0.2% and the rental vacancy rate was 9.0%.[21]
As of the 2020s, Baker County is a Republican stronghold, voting 60% forDonald Trump in2024. Like mostDeep South counties, Baker County was historically Democratic voting. Starting in 1964, the county began to see a realignment, withBarry Goldwater andRichard Nixon carrying it in 1964 and 1972, and American Independent candidate George Wallace winning the county in 1968 as a third-party candidate. In 1956,Adlai Stevenson received over 96 percent of the county's vote.[24] The county voted Democratic consistently from 1976 until 2012, but by closer margins than in 1956, and the county shifted more to the right throughout the early 2000s. In 2008Barack Obama won with just 50.1 percent toJohn McCain's 49.1 percent,[25] whileDonald Trump won the county by almost ten percent in 2016, despite declining onMitt Romney’s performance statewide.Brian Kemp repeated this feat by double digits inthe 2018 gubernatorial race, and in 2020, Trump won Baker County by nearly sixteen percentage points.[26]
^Baker County Historical Society (1991).The History of Baker County. Newton, Baker County, Georgia, USA: Baker County Historical Society. pp. 54–69.LCCN92080765.
Allen D. Candler;Clement A. Evans, eds. (1906)."Baker County".Georgia: Comprising Sketches of Counties, Towns, Events, Institutions, and Persons Arranged in Cyclopedic Form. Vol. 1. Atlanta: State Historical Association. p. 114 – via HathiTrust.
