4,879 people (2024 Census estimate, −5.8% since 2020)
199 square miles of land · 24 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.
6 active community water systems list Pulaski County in the area they serve, reporting 3,102 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MOUNDS buys groundwater · local government · IL1530150 | 1,011 served |
| MOUND CITY groundwater · local government · IL1530100 | 526 served |
| ULLIN buys groundwater · local government · IL1530350 | 496 served |
| OLMSTED groundwater · local government · IL1530250 | 435 served |
| KARNAK buys groundwater · local government · IL1530050 | 432 served |
| PULASKI buys groundwater · local government · IL1530300 | 202 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 214 people were held in Pulaski County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 6,619 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2013 it was about 191.
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.
2 school districts have their office in Pulaski County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $12.5 million — $10.1 million to run schools, about $21,878 per student, plus $1.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.6 million local (mostly property tax), $7 million state, $3.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $3.9 million.
Spent $7.5 million — $5.2 million to run schools, about $15,549 per student, plus $1.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1 million local (mostly property tax), $4.7 million state, $2.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $2.5 million.
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 Pulaski County about $10.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
108 bridges in Pulaski County: 39 in good condition, 59 fair, and 10 poor (9.3%). “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.
| I 57 NB & US 51 NB over LITTLE CREEK · built 1964 | 6,300 vehicles a day |
| I 57 SB & US 51 SB over LITTLE CREEK · built 1964 | 6,300 vehicles a day |
| FAS 938 over CREEK · built 1965 | 1,750 vehicles a day |
| ILL 169 over STREAM · built 1933 | 1,650 vehicles a day |
| ILL 37 over CACHE RIVER · built 1957 | 1,350 vehicles a day |
| FAS 937 over POST CR CUT-OFF · built 1938 | 650 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $14.6 million of work in Pulaski County in fiscal 2025, about $2,815 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 Pulaski 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 Pulaski County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Alexander County (12 mi) · Ballard County, KY (13 mi) · Union County (20 mi) · Johnson County (22 mi) · Massac County (23 mi) · McCracken County, KY (25 mi).