66,458 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.1% since 2020)
414 square miles of land · 160 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.
10 active community water systems list Grant County in the area they serve, reporting 44,531 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MARION CITY WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · IN5227014 | 28,363 served |
| GAS CITY WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · IN5227006 | 6,000 served |
| UPLAND WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · IN5227022 | 3,308 served |
| FAIRMOUNT WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · IN5227005 | 2,756 served |
| JONESBORO WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · IN5227010 | 2,034 served |
| SWAYZEE WATER UTILITY groundwater · local government · IN5227020 | 975 served |
| VAN BUREN MUNICIPAL UTILITIES groundwater · local government · IN5227023 | 864 served |
| COLONIAL CREST LLC groundwater · private · IN5227008 | 101 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 332 people were held in Grant County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 797 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 270.
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.
5 school districts have their office in Grant County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $64.5 million — $53.1 million to run schools, about $14,334 per student, plus $10.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11 million local (mostly property tax), $32.6 million state, $19.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $25.9 million.
Spent $36.2 million — $31 million to run schools, about $12,764 per student, plus $2.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.8 million local (mostly property tax), $23.8 million state, $7.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $6.4 million.
Spent $21.6 million — $18.7 million to run schools, about $11,196 per student, plus $2.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.1 million local (mostly property tax), $14.7 million state, $2.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $16.3 million.
Spent $20.4 million — $16.9 million to run schools, about $10,396 per student, plus $2.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8 million local (mostly property tax), $12.8 million state, $1.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $17.9 million.
Spent $18.7 million — $16.5 million to run schools, about $10,573 per student, plus $1.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.8 million local (mostly property tax), $12.2 million state, $1.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $15.5 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 Grant County about $23.1 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
280 bridges in Grant County: 109 in good condition, 167 fair, and 4 poor (1.4%). “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.
| BRANSON ST over MISSISSINEWA RIVER · built 1910 | 7,460 vehicles a day |
| CR 1100S over DEER CREEK · built 1976 | 160 vehicles a day |
| CR 900W over PIPE CREEK · built 1920 | 160 vehicles a day |
| CR 800S over PRAIRIE RUN · built 1981 | 110 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $10.6 million of work in Grant County in fiscal 2025, about $160 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 Grant 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 Grant County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Blackford County (18 mi) · Huntington County (23 mi) · Wabash County (24 mi) · Delaware County (24 mi) · Howard County (24 mi) · Madison County (24 mi).