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County in Georgia, United States

Glynn County is located in the southeastern part of the U. S. state of Georgia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 84,499. The county seat is Brunswick. Glynn County is part of the Brunswick, Georgia Metropolitan Statistical Area.

According to the U. S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 585 square miles (1,515 km2), of which 420 square miles (1,088 km2) is land and 165 square miles (427 km2) (28.3%) is water. The majority of Glynn County is located in the Cumberland St. Simons sub basin of the St. Marys Satilla River basin. Most of the county's northern and northwestern border area is located in the Altamaha River sub basin of the basin by the same name.

+Glynn County racial composition as of 2020RaceNum. Perc. White (non Hispanic)52,98762.71%Black or African American (non Hispanic)20,46924.22%Native American1750.21%Asian1,1751.39%Pacific Islander920.11%Other/Mixed3,2653.86%Hispanic or Latino6,3367.5%
As of the 2020 United States census, there were 84,499 people, 34,614 households, and 22,352 families residing in the county.

In terms of European ancestry, 40.8% were English, 10.6% were "American", 10.2% were Irish, and 7.9% were German.

Glynn County's public schools are operated by Glynn County School System.

Glynn County is home to four Superfund sites. Those include the "LCP Chemicals Georgia" site, the "Brunswick Wood Preserving" site, the "Hercules 009 Landfill" site, and the "Terry Creek Dredge Spoil Areas/Hercules Outfall" site. The Hanlin Group, Inc., which maintained a facility named "LCP Chemicals" in Glynn County just outside the corporate limits of Brunswick, was convicted of dumping 150 tons of mercury into Purvis Creek, a tributary of the Turtle River and surrounding tidal marshes between the mid 1980s and its closure in 1994. Three executives were sentenced to prison time over the incident. The LCP facility had been declared a Superfund site when it closed in 1994. It had been under scrutiny by the EPA after Service biologists discovered mercury poisoning in endangered wood storks on St. Simons Island. Fish, shellfish, crabs, and shrimps taken in coastal waters, as well as other bird species, also contained the toxic metal. The Service traced the source of the contamination to the LCP plant and documented the extent of the damage to wildlife resources. Their effort resulted in the addition of Endangered Species Act charges to those that would be brought against Hanlin and its officers.

In 2020, the FBI ranked the Brunswick metropolitan area (which includes the counties of Glynn, Brantley and McIntosh) as the 7th most dangerous metropolitan area in the state of Georgia. On August 29, 2009, Glynn County resident Guy Heinze Jr. murdered eight members of his extended family including his father, Guy Heinze Sr. in the family's trailer located in New Hope Plantation Mobile Home Park near Brunswick. Two others were critically injured, with one dying later in a hospital in Savannah. Heinze Jr. avoided the death penalty and was sentenced to life in prison without parole on October 30, 2013.