Short-term kit
Radon Short Term Test Kit short-term charcoal radon test kit, lab fee included
- Lab fee included
Method: Charcoal
In home: 2 to 7 days
Locations and reports
Radon Levels in Worth County, Georgia
EPA puts Worth County in Zone 3, its lowest radon zone. Homes with elevated levels occur in all three zones, so only a test measures yours.
Data checked By Radon411Methodology
Highest bordering
0.0%
Dougherty County
- Dougherty
- 0.0%
1 of 7 neighbours have 30+ tests, 2007 to 2016
Nearest county
0.0%
Dougherty County, 22 miles
- Dougherty
- 0.0%
- Georgia
- 23.9%
Share at 4+ pCi/L, 32 tests, 2007 to 2016
Ground above low
None
26.5 pts below Georgia
- Worth
- 0.0%
- Georgia
- 26.5%
Share of land USGS rates moderate or high potential
Tests reported
0
None published
A home here needs its own test
EPA radon zone
Zone 3
Lower potential
- 1
- 2
- Zone 3
1 highest, 3 lowest
EPA predicts under 2 pCi/L indoors
Read a result for Worth County
Starts at EPA's action level
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
- Under 20 to 1.9 pCi/L
- 2 to 4consider a fix
- 4 and aboveEPA says fix it
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
Worth County, At a glance
Worth County at a glance
Predicted: EPA radon zone
EPA Zone 3: lower predicted potential
USGS geologic potential: Low across 100% of the county's area
Predicted: EPA Map of Radon Zones
Measured: tests reported to CDC
No CDC test figures here
CDC has published no radon test figures for Worth County. Dougherty County, the one bordering county with a figure over the 2007 to 2016 laboratory totals, reported 0.0% of its tests at or above 4 pCi/L.
Worth County, Compared
Worth County radon figures, compared
Calculated by Radon411CDC's county radon counts over the 2007 to 2016 laboratory totals cover 137 Georgia counties, and Worth County is not among them: no year's figure and no ten-year laboratory total names it. Pooled across 137 Georgia counties, 23.9% of reported tests reached that level; across every county in the country with a figure, 35.8%.
Dougherty County, the one bordering county with a figure over the 2007 to 2016 laboratory totals, reported 0.0% of its tests at or above 4 pCi/L. Farther out, Houston County (63 miles away) at 8.2%, Laurens County (83 miles away) at 16.1% and Bibb County (87 miles away) at 0.0% have figures too. 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 Worth 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.
Worth County, Geology
The ground under Worth County
PredictedUSGS's geologic map puts all of Worth 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.
Worth County beside the ground around it
Across Georgia 26.5% of the land is rated moderate; none of Worth County's is. None of the 7 counties that border it has any moderate-potential ground either.
The map rates the ground, not the air in any home.
Local help
Worth County, Local resources
Radon testing and mitigation in Worth County
- Georgia's radon programGeorgia Attorney General's Consumer Protection DivisionGeorgia's radon program does not license radon professionals and offers free or discounted test kits, and answers questions about testing and mitigation in Georgia.Visit the program’s page(opens in a new tab)
- Free and low-cost kitsThe program says:
A kit costs $15.00 if mailed or $10.00 if picked up at a participating County Extension office.
- Compare kits
- Professionals in Georgia3 professionals are listed in Georgia.
What Georgia's program says
- Licensing of radon professionals
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
Worth County, Questions
Questions about radon in Worth County
Are radon levels high in Worth County?
No CDC testing statistics are published here for Worth County, Georgia yet. Dougherty County, the one bordering county with a figure over the 2007 to 2016 laboratory totals, reported 0.0% of its tests at or above 4 pCi/L.
Which counties border Worth County?
Worth County borders 7 counties: Turner County, Lee County, Tift County, Dougherty County, Crisp County, Colquitt County and Mitchell County.
Products
Worth County, Products
Testing a home in Worth County
No CDC figure names Worth County; the nearest county with one, Dougherty County (22 miles away), reported 0.0% 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 Worth County.
Test kits and monitors3
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Long-term kit
RL116 long-term radon test kit
- Lab fee extra
Method: Alpha track
In home: 90 days to 12 months
Monitor
Corentium Home battery digital radon detector
- C-NRPP 2024/25: Approved
- Battery
- Screen
Method: Alpha spectrometry
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Worth County, Bordering counties
Counties bordering Worth County
Calculated by Radon411- Radon levels in Crisp CountyEPA zone 3
50.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 4.3 pCi/L · 2 tests
- Radon levels in Turner CountyEPA zone 3
0.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 0.9 pCi/L · 6 tests
- Radon levels in Lee CountyEPA zone 3
0.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 1.0 pCi/L · 5 tests
- Radon levels in Tift CountyEPA zone 3
0.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 1.4 pCi/L · 10 tests
- Radon levels in Dougherty CountyEPA zone 3
0.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 0.6 pCi/L · 32 tests
- Radon levels in Colquitt CountyEPA zone 3
0.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 0.5 pCi/L · 2 tests
- Radon levels in Mitchell CountyEPA zone 3
0.0%at or above 4 pCi/L
Median 1.3 pCi/L · 1 test
Worth County, Cities and towns
Cities and towns in Worth County
About 20,059 people live in Worth County by the Census Bureau's estimate for July 1, 2025, 660 fewer than in 2020 (−3.2%). That works out to 35 people per square mile of land. Its largest town, Sylvester, has 5,430 residents, 27.1% of the total. Together its 4 incorporated places hold 35.2% of those residents; the other 64.8% live outside any of them. CDC publishes no radon test count for Worth County; across Georgia its counts for 2007 to 2016 come to 2.6 tests for every 1,000 residents (2025 estimate).
From Sylvester to Sumner, CDC publishes no figure by town: each reads Worth County's.
| Place | Residents | Since 2020 | Share of residents |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sylvester | 5,430 | −3.2% | 27.1% |
| Poulan | 717 | −5.2% | 3.6% |
| Warwick | 481 | −4.2% | 2.4% |
| Sumner | 430 | −2.7% | 2.1% |
4 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).
Worth County, Homes
Homes in Worth County
Of Worth County's 9,296 homes, 58% are detached houses, against 66% across Georgia; 34% are mobile homes. Half of its homes were built before 1986, close to Georgia's 1991: 17% date from before 1960 and 20% from 2000 or later. 73% 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 | Worth County | Georgia |
|---|---|---|
| Housing units | 9,296 | 4,483,873 |
| Detached houses | 58% | 66% |
| In buildings of 5 or more | 3% | 16% |
| Mobile homes | 34% | 8% |
| Built before 1960 | 17% | 12% |
| Built since 2000 | 20% | 33% |
| Middle year built | 1986 | 1991 |
| Owner-occupied | 73% | 65% |
Census Bureau, American Community Survey, 2019 to 2023: estimates from a sample of homes, looser for a small place. Shares by Radon411.