35,375 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.2% since 2020)
1,044 square miles of land · 34 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
16 active community water systems list Livingston County in the area they serve, reporting 28,447 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| IL AMERICAN-PONTIAC surface water · private · IL1055030 | 11,864 served |
| DWIGHT groundwater · local government · IL1050250 | 4,400 served |
| FAIRBURY groundwater · local government · IL1050350 | 3,633 served |
| PONTIAC CORRECTIONAL CENTER buys surface water · state · IL1055500 | 1,665 served |
| FORREST groundwater · local government · IL1050450 | 1,225 served |
| CHATSWORTH groundwater · local government · IL1050100 | 1,200 served |
| FLANAGAN groundwater · local government · IL1050400 | 1,070 served |
| ODELL groundwater · local government · IL1050550 | 1,014 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 145 people were held in Livingston County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 641 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 95.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
11 school districts have their office in Livingston County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $31 million — $27.6 million to run schools, about $15,986 per student, plus $2.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $19.3 million local (mostly property tax), $16.7 million state, $2.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $6.4 million.
Spent $25.3 million — $21 million to run schools, about $18,952 per student, plus $4.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $9.4 million local (mostly property tax), $11.8 million state, $4.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.9 million.
Spent $15.5 million — $12.6 million to run schools, about $18,199 per student, plus $1.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8 million local (mostly property tax), $8 million state, $1.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $3.7 million.
Spent $7.8 million — $7.2 million to run schools, about $13,224 per student, plus $248,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.1 million local (mostly property tax), $3.2 million state, $1.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $57,000.
Spent $11.2 million — $9.8 million to run schools, about $22,059 per student, plus $637,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.7 million local (mostly property tax), $5.7 million state, $1.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $7.9 million.
Spent $6 million — $5.2 million to run schools, about $17,605 per student, plus $350,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.3 million local (mostly property tax), $1.5 million state, $614,000 federal. Long-term debt: $497,000.
Spent $7.2 million — $6.1 million to run schools, about $28,279 per student, plus $896,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.1 million local (mostly property tax), $2.5 million state, $611,000 federal. Long-term debt: $783,000.
Spent $3 million — $2.6 million to run schools, about $15,407 per student, plus $19,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.4 million local (mostly property tax), $1.5 million state, $341,000 federal. Long-term debt: $516,000.
And 3 more.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Livingston County about $32.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
579 bridges in Livingston County: 298 in good condition, 235 fair, and 46 poor (7.9%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| ILL 23 over I-55 · built 1972 | 3,900 vehicles a day |
| ILL 23 over VERMILION R & AT&SF · built 1981 | 3,350 vehicles a day |
| ILL 116 over SCATTERING POINT CR · built 1970 | 3,050 vehicles a day |
| US 24 over BR S FK VERMILION RV · built 1951 | 2,950 vehicles a day |
| OLD RT 66 NB/FAS 2 over WOLF CREEK · built 1955 | 2,550 vehicles a day |
| OLD RT 66 NB/FAS 2 over MAZON RIVER · built 1954 | 1,550 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $19.2 million of work in Livingston County in fiscal 2025, about $536 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Illinois are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Livingston County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Livingston County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Ford County (27 mi) · Grundy County (29 mi) · McLean County (32 mi) · Woodford County (35 mi) · LaSalle County (36 mi) · Iroquois County (39 mi).