FL SR 77 runs from south to north through the center of town, leading northeast 22 mi (35 km) to Dothan, Alabama via a connection with Alabama State Route 109, and south 12 mi (19 km) to Chipley.

Jackson County is a rural community primarily composed of business in agriculture, manufacturing, service, and retail trade.

In addition, many government facilities are located within the county, including a federal prison and three state correctional institutions.

The Chattahoochee River-Apalachicola River, which is navigable and has a nine-foot channel depth, forms the county's eastern border.

The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild winters.

As of the 2020 United States census, there were 2,153 people, 814 households, and 451 families residing in the city.

Graceville was served by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad at the end of the stub Georgiana Branch which reached the town on July 16, 1902,[11] and, later, by the Seaboard System from 1983, and then by the Alabama and Florida Railroad, when the line was spun off as a shortline.

Following World War II, with the improvement of local roads and the availability of private vehicles, the railroad petitioned the Alabama Public Service Commission to discontinue daily except Sunday trains between Georgiana and Graceville on November 6, 1947.

[13] The Atlanta and St. Andrews Bay Railroad also built a seven-mile connection into town from the east from their Dothan-Panama City mainline at Campbellton, completed July 14, 1971,[14] but this, too, was abandoned by 1996 after the possible bridge traffic from the A&F disappeared.