23,335 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.1% since 2020)
215 square miles of land · 109 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.
5 active community water systems list Fayette County in the area they serve, reporting 15,652 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CONNERSVILLE UTILITIES groundwater · local government · IN5221001 | 13,282 served |
| EVERTON WATER CORPORATION groundwater · local government · IN5221002 | 1,800 served |
| PLEASANTVIEW UTILITIES, INC. buys groundwater · private · IN5221004 | 500 served |
| ST JUDE VILLAGE WATER CORPORATION groundwater · local government · IN5221007 | 38 served |
| GREEN ACRES MOBILE HOME PARK groundwater · private · IN5221003 | 32 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 112 people were held in Fayette County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 783 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 149.
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 Fayette County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $51.9 million — $46 million to run schools, about $14,148 per student, plus $4.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $13.3 million local (mostly property tax), $30.3 million state, $9.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $7.4 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 Fayette County about $9.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
100 bridges in Fayette County: 29 in good condition, 60 fair, and 11 poor (11.0%). “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.
| 12TH ST over LITTLE WILLIAMS CREEK · built 1968 | 575 vehicles a day |
| CR 350E over VILLAGE CREEK · built 1963 | 450 vehicles a day |
| CR 650S over N BRANCH OF GARRISON CR · built 1965 | 425 vehicles a day |
| SPRINGERSVILLE RD over SIMPSON CREEK · built 1960 | 425 vehicles a day |
| COUNTRY CLUB RD over LITTLE WILLIAMS CREEK · built 1965 | 425 vehicles a day |
| CR 500N over LICK CREEK · built 1968 | 125 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $565,974 of work in Fayette County in fiscal 2025, about $24 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 Fayette 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 Fayette County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Union County (14 mi) · Rush County (15 mi) · Franklin County (17 mi) · Wayne County (18 mi) · Henry County (23 mi) · Decatur County (28 mi).