88,810 people (2024 Census estimate, +10.8% since 2020)
306 square miles of land · 290 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.
7 active community water systems list Hancock County in the area they serve, reporting 36,516 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| GREENFIELD WATER UTILITY groundwater · local government · IN5230004 | 26,671 served |
| FORTVILLE WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · IN5230003 | 7,638 served |
| NINESTAR CONNECT - GEM WATER groundwater · private · IN5230008 | 1,837 served |
| PHILLY ESTATES LLC groundwater · private · IN5230005 | 190 served |
| ARROWHEAD MOBILE HOME PARK groundwater · private · IN5230001 | 65 served |
| HEARTLAND RESORT groundwater · private · IN5230012 | 65 served |
| CADE APARTMENTS groundwater · private · IN5230010 | 50 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 248 people were held in Hancock County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 451 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 231.
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.
4 school districts have their office in Hancock County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $72.9 million — $57.1 million to run schools, about $12,217 per student, plus $15.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $31.5 million local (mostly property tax), $41.3 million state, $2.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $122.8 million.
Spent $68.5 million — $53.3 million to run schools, about $12,144 per student, plus $14 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $22 million local (mostly property tax), $40.9 million state, $4.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $82.2 million.
Spent $48.6 million — $38.7 million to run schools, about $10,017 per student, plus $7.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $16.2 million local (mostly property tax), $28 million state, $2.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $63.7 million.
Spent $16.7 million — $14.3 million to run schools, about $12,151 per student, plus $1.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.2 million local (mostly property tax), $10.8 million state, $952,000 federal. Long-term debt: $10.7 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 Hancock County about $22.7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
201 bridges in Hancock County: 116 in good condition, 80 fair, and 5 poor (2.5%). “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 300S over RODEWALD DITCH · built 1978 | 2,950 vehicles a day |
| CR 400S over SUGAR CREEK · built 1975 | 860 vehicles a day |
| CR 500N over BRANDYWINE CREEK · built 1975 | 700 vehicles a day |
| CR 450W over SUGAR CREEK · built 1970 | 530 vehicles a day |
| CR 900N over SUGAR CREEK · built 1965 | 220 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $44.2 million of work in Hancock County in fiscal 2025, about $554 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 Hancock 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 Hancock County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Marion County (19 mi) · Shelby County (21 mi) · Hamilton County (21 mi) · Henry County (21 mi) · Rush County (21 mi) · Madison County (24 mi).