5,633 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.0% since 2020)
160 square miles of land · 35 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.
8 active community water systems list Putnam County in the area they serve, reporting 4,026 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| GRANVILLE groundwater · local government · IL1550050 | 1,359 served |
| HENNEPIN PWD groundwater · local government · IL1555100 | 750 served |
| MARK groundwater · local government · IL1550250 | 555 served |
| LAKE THUNDERBIRD SUBDIVSION groundwater · private · IL1555050 | 450 served |
| MCNABB groundwater · local government · IL1550150 | 258 served |
| MAGNOLIA groundwater · local government · IL1550200 | 244 served |
| STANDARD groundwater · local government · IL1550300 | 225 served |
| OAK PARK ESTATES buys groundwater · private · IL1550010 | 185 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 1 people were held in Putnam County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 29 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 2.
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.
1 school district has its office in Putnam County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $15.6 million — $14.6 million to run schools, about $18,084 per student, plus $668,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.5 million local (mostly property tax), $13.8 million state, $843,000 federal.
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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Putnam County about $4.7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
50 bridges in Putnam County: 14 in good condition, 33 fair, and 3 poor (6.0%). “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 29 over SENACHWINE CREEK · built 1962 | 3,200 vehicles a day |
| ILL 18 over DRAINAGE DITCH · built 1932 | 2,100 vehicles a day |
| ILL 26/FAS 2370 over DRAINAGE DITCH · built 1956 | 800 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $5.9 million of work in Putnam County in fiscal 2025, about $1,055 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 Putnam 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 Putnam County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Marshall County (12 mi) · Bureau County (18 mi) · LaSalle County (24 mi) · Stark County (27 mi) · Woodford County (29 mi) · Peoria County (37 mi).