Note: The following is part of a series of columns looking at the founding and general history of southeast Georgia and Bulloch County. Bulloch County has been for most of its existence one of the most rural counties in Georgia. According to the 2010 U.S. census, 70,217 people inhabited its 682 square miles of land, Bulloch County' population density was 104.4 people per square mile in 2010, while the average for the entire state was 168.4 people per square mile.