207,436 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.2% since 2020)
463 square miles of land · 448 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 Elkhart County in the area they serve, reporting 97,999 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| ELKHART PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES groundwater · local government · IN5220008 | 46,455 served |
| GOSHEN WATER UTILITY groundwater · local government · IN5220009 | 32,267 served |
| NAPPANEE WATER UTILITY groundwater · local government · IN5220016 | 6,800 served |
| MIDDLEBURY WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · IN5220014 | 3,420 served |
| WAKARUSA WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · IN5220029 | 1,998 served |
| BRISTOL WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · IN5220003 | 1,805 served |
| TIMBERBROOK MOBILE HOME PARK groundwater · private · IN5220027 | 1,418 served |
| COBUS GREEN MOBILE HOME PARK groundwater · private · IN5220037 | 1,042 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 876 people were held in Elkhart County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 683 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 866.
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.
7 school districts have their office in Elkhart County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $195.8 million — $171.4 million to run schools, about $15,148 per student, plus $18.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $50.5 million local (mostly property tax), $112.4 million state, $36.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $90.1 million.
Spent $107.6 million — $84.6 million to run schools, about $13,459 per student, plus $13.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $37.8 million local (mostly property tax), $59.1 million state, $12.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $97.3 million.
Spent $80 million — $63 million to run schools, about $11,779 per student, plus $13.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $22.2 million local (mostly property tax), $49.7 million state, $11.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $56.5 million.
Spent $65.7 million — $42.5 million to run schools, about $10,051 per student, plus $19.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $28.3 million local (mostly property tax), $31 million state, $5 million federal. Long-term debt: $45.1 million.
Spent $51.3 million — $37.4 million to run schools, about $12,746 per student, plus $11.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $17.6 million local (mostly property tax), $26.2 million state, $3.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $64.6 million.
Spent $34.5 million — $25.5 million to run schools, about $11,731 per student, plus $7.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $13.7 million local (mostly property tax), $18.6 million state, $2.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $32.9 million.
Spent $25.3 million — $19.2 million to run schools, about $10,808 per student, plus $4.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11.7 million local (mostly property tax), $13.4 million state, $2 million federal. Long-term debt: $17.2 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 Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Elkhart County about $49.3 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
278 bridges in Elkhart County: 93 in good condition, 159 fair, and 26 poor (9.4%). “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.
| CR 6 over CHRISTIANA CREEK · built 1965 | 18,719 vehicles a day |
| BEARDSLEY AVE over CHRISTIANA CREEK · built 1963 | 12,899 vehicles a day |
| SR 15 over WHITEHEAD DITCH · built 1929 | 10,805 vehicles a day |
| CR 36 over HORN DITCH · built 1959 | 6,450 vehicles a day |
| N MAIN STREET over CHRISTIANA CREEK · built 1952 | 4,615 vehicles a day |
| INDIANA AVE over ROCK RUN CREEK · built 1961 | 3,711 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $71 million of work in Elkhart County in fiscal 2025, about $343 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 Elkhart 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 Elkhart County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: St. Joseph County (22 mi) · LaGrange County (23 mi) · Cass County, MI (23 mi) · Kosciusko County (25 mi) · Noble County (27 mi) · St. Joseph County, MI (28 mi).