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RA400 short-term liquid scintillation radon test kit, lab fee included
- Lab fee included
Method: Liquid scintillation
In home: 48 to 96 hours
Locations and reports
EPA puts Crisp County in Zone 3, its lowest radon zone, and only 1 radon test from it is on file with CDC (2008 to 2017, laboratory totals). Homes with elevated levels occur in all three zones, so only a test measures yours.
Data checked By Radon411Methodology
Nearest county
8.2%
Houston County, 37 miles
Share at 4+ pCi/L, 61 tests, 2007 to 2016
Ground above low
None
26.5 pts below Georgia
Share of land USGS rates moderate or high potential
Tests reported
2
Too few for a share
2007 to 2016, laboratory
EPA radon zone
Zone 3
Lower potential
1 highest, 3 lowest
EPA predicts under 2 pCi/L indoors
Read a result for Crisp County
EPA’s own thresholds; the figures are the area’s, never this home’s.
EPA’s reading of 4.0 pCi/L
At or above 4 pCi/L
This result is at or above 4 pCi/L. EPA recommends fixing a home when the radon level is 4 pCi/L or higher.
The data
Crisp County, At a glance
Predicted: EPA radon zone
USGS geologic potential: Low across 100% of the county's area
Predicted: EPA Map of Radon Zones
Measured: tests reported to CDC
CDC holds 1 reported test for Crisp County over the 2008 to 2017 laboratory totals, a result of 0.1 pCi/L: too few to describe a county (Radon411 reads a share from 30 tests up). Crisp County beside the counties around it is how this page reads it.
Only 1 test was reported to CDC for Crisp County over 2008 to 2017 (laboratory totals), and tests are often run on homes being sold or already suspected of a problem: so few describe neither the county nor this house.
Measured: CDC tracking data. Figure above: 2008 to 2017, laboratory. Measured data period: 2005 to 2017 (every CDC figure on file).
Crisp County, Compared
CDC's largest figure for Crisp County rests on 2 tests over the 2007 to 2016 laboratory totals, 1 of them at or above 4 pCi/L, so each test moves its share by 50.0 points and no rank or comparison is drawn from it. Results reached as high as 8.4 pCi/L, with a middle value of 4.3 pCi/L.
The nearest counties with a figure are Houston County (37 miles away) at 8.2%, Dougherty County (38 miles away) at 0.0% and Bibb County (61 miles away) at 0.0%. Pooled across 137 Georgia counties, 23.9% of reported tests reached that level; across every county in the country with a figure, 35.8%.
Statewide for the same period, Barrow County reported the highest share (51.0%) and Dougherty County the lowest (0.0%). EPA's 1993 map puts Crisp County in Zone 3, its lowest label: a predicted county average under 2 pCi/L. USGS geology rates 100% of the county's land low radon potential.
Pooled shares: Radon411's sum of CDC's county counts for one period.
Crisp County, Geology
USGS's geologic map puts all of Crisp County's mapped land in one class: low radon potential. All of it lies in the area the map calls Coastal Plain, to which USGS gives a radon index of 8, in the low band (5 to 8).
| Area | The rock, in USGS's words | Potential | Radon index | Share of land |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal Plain | Cretaceous and Tertiary marine and coastal sediments including limestone, sandstone, sand, silt, and clay. Coastal plan sands containing glauconite may generate locally elevated radon. | Low | 8 | 100% |
Names, descriptions and indexes: U.S. Geological Survey, Geologic Radon Potential Map (2025). Shares: Radon411, from the map cut to the boundary.
Across Georgia 26.5% of the land is rated moderate; none of Crisp County's is. None of the 6 counties that border it has any moderate-potential ground either.
The map rates the ground, not the air in any home.
Local help
Crisp County, Local resources
A kit costs $15.00 if mailed or $10.00 if picked up at a participating County Extension office.
There are no laws mandating a mitigator receive certification in Georgia, however, many mitigators choose to get certified by one of two national programs.
What it means
Crisp County, Questions
Over the 2008 to 2017 laboratory totals, 0.0% of the radon tests reported to CDC for Crisp County, Georgia were at or above 4 pCi/L, and the median reported pre-mitigation result was 0.1 pCi/L. Of the 8 nearest counties with a figure, within 87 miles, the share of tests at or above 4 pCi/L runs from 0.0% to 26.5%.
Crisp County borders 6 counties: Turner County, Dooly County, Wilcox County, Worth County, Lee County and Sumter County.
Products
Crisp County, Products
No CDC figure names Crisp County; the nearest county with one, Houston County (37 miles away), reported 8.2% of its tests at or above 4 pCi/L over the 2007 to 2016 laboratory totals, the only reading nearby until a test of this home. Zone 3 is the lowest label, yet homes at or above 4 pCi/L occur in every zone: a short-term kit (2 to 90 days) is the quick first check in Crisp County.
Test kits and monitors: 1 of 3
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Crisp County, Bordering counties
20.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 3.7 pCi/L · 5 tests
0.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 0.9 pCi/L · 6 tests
0.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 0.5 pCi/L · 2 tests
0.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 0.1 pCi/L · 3 tests
0.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 1.0 pCi/L · 5 tests
No CDC figure for 2007 to 2016; its page reads it against its own neighbours.
Crisp County, Cities and towns
About 19,237 people live in Crisp County by the Census Bureau's estimate for July 1, 2025, 821 fewer than in 2020 (−4.1%). That works out to 71 people per square mile of land. Cordele alone is home to 9,652 of them, 50.2% of the total. Together its 2 incorporated places hold 52.5% of those residents; the other 47.5% live outside any of them. Reported testing is thin here: 2 tests over 2007 to 2016, or 0.1 for every 1,000 residents (2025 estimate), where Georgia as a whole comes to 2.6.
From Cordele to Arabi, CDC publishes no figure by town: each reads Crisp County's.
| Place | Residents | Since 2020 | Share of residents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cordele | 9,652 | −5.3% | 50.2% |
| Arabi | 453 | +0.7% | 2.4% |
2 incorporated places, as listed in the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 place reference files. Residents: U.S. Census Bureau population estimates for July 1, 2025 (Vintage 2025).
Crisp County, Homes
Of Crisp County's 9,902 homes, 64% are detached houses, against 66% across Georgia; 19% are mobile homes. The homes are older than Georgia's as a whole: half were built before 1983 (1991 for Georgia), and 18% date from before 1960. 54% of occupied homes are lived in by their owner (Georgia: 65%); in the rest a tenant can run a test, but a fix is the landlord's to make.
| Homes | Crisp County | Georgia |
|---|---|---|
| Housing units | 9,902 | 4,483,873 |
| Detached houses | 64% | 66% |
| In buildings of 5 or more | 8% | 16% |
| Mobile homes | 19% | 8% |
| Built before 1960 | 18% | 12% |
| Built since 2000 | 21% | 33% |
| Middle year built | 1983 | 1991 |
| Owner-occupied | 54% | 65% |
Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2019 to 2023: estimates from a sample of homes, looser for a small place. Shares by Radon411.