10,523 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.0% since 2020)
306 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.
6 active community water systems list Crawford County in the area they serve, reporting 7,085 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CRAWFORD COUNTY WATER COMPANY, INC. buys groundwater · local government · IN5213001 | 2,678 served |
| BLUE RIVER REGIONAL WATER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · IN5213006 | 2,000 served |
| PATOKA WATER COMPANY, INC. buys surface water · local government · IN5213007 | 1,038 served |
| ENGLISH WATER WORKS buys surface water · local government · IN5213002 | 886 served |
| GRANTSBURG RURAL WATER COMPANY buys surface water · local government · IN5213003 | 250 served |
| LEAVENWORTH WATER COMPANY groundwater · local government · IN5213004 | 233 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 42 people were held in Crawford County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 654 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 62.
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 Crawford County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $21.9 million — $16.6 million to run schools, about $12,334 per student, plus $5.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.2 million local (mostly property tax), $11.4 million state, $2.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $5.5 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Crawford County about $5.9 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.
123 bridges in Crawford County: 42 in good condition, 60 fair, and 21 poor (17.1%). “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.
| DRY RUN ROAD over DRY RUN · built 1905 | 411 vehicles a day |
| BEASLEY ROAD over CAMP FORK CREEK · built 1950 | 411 vehicles a day |
| WASHINGTON STREET over BRANDYWINE FORK · built 1928 | 411 vehicles a day |
| OTTER CREEK ROAD over BRANCH OF OTTER CREEK · built 1930 | 400 vehicles a day |
| ARCHIBALD FALLS RD over LITTLE BLUE RIVER · built 1892 | 271 vehicles a day |
| ALTON FREDONIA RD over LITTLE BLUE RIVER · built 1900 | 271 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $4.7 million of work in Crawford County in fiscal 2025, about $448 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 Indiana 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 Crawford 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 Crawford County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Perry County (18 mi) · Orange County (18 mi) · Harrison County (20 mi) · Dubois County (24 mi) · Meade County, KY (26 mi) · Washington County (28 mi).