80,669 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.6% since 2020)
531 square miles of land · 152 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.
30 active community water systems list Kosciusko County in the area they serve, reporting 26,757 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| INDIANA AMERICAN WATER - WARSAW groundwater · private · IN5243030 | 13,835 served |
| SYRACUSE WATER COMPANY groundwater · local government · IN5243025 | 2,810 served |
| MILFORD WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · IN5243017 | 1,556 served |
| SILVER LAKE WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · IN5243021 | 1,030 served |
| MENTONE WATER COMPANY groundwater · local government · IN5243013 | 1,001 served |
| PIERCETON WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · IN5243018 | 928 served |
| ETNA GREEN WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · IN5243003 | 663 served |
| MECKS WHISPERING PINES II LLC groundwater · private · IN5243033 | 598 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 260 people were held in Kosciusko County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 520 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 288.
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.
3 school districts have their office in Kosciusko County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $101 million — $83.3 million to run schools, about $12,365 per student, plus $12.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $33 million local (mostly property tax), $62.7 million state, $7 million federal. Long-term debt: $119.4 million.
Spent $50.3 million — $39 million to run schools, about $13,748 per student, plus $7.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $26.4 million local (mostly property tax), $26.6 million state, $4.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $68.2 million.
Spent $27.3 million — $23.3 million to run schools, about $13,069 per student, plus $3.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $9.1 million local (mostly property tax), $16.8 million state, $2.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $35 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 Kosciusko County about $24.8 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.
153 bridges in Kosciusko County: 54 in good condition, 89 fair, and 10 poor (6.5%). “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.
| S HAND STREET over WALNUT CREEK · built 1970 | 1,575 vehicles a day |
| CR 800 WEST over HOFFMAN LAKE OUTLET · built 1974 | 725 vehicles a day |
| CR 750 EAST over TIPPECANOE RIVER · built 1980 | 500 vehicles a day |
| BEER ROAD over TURKEY CREEK · built 1910 | 250 vehicles a day |
| CR 450 EAST over DEEDS CREEK · built 1980 | 200 vehicles a day |
| CR 950 WEST over MIDDLE FORK YELLOW RIVER · built 1980 | 200 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $14.5 million of work in Kosciusko County in fiscal 2025, about $181 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 Kosciusko 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 Kosciusko County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Whitley County (20 mi) · Marshall County (22 mi) · Elkhart County (25 mi) · Fulton County (25 mi) · Noble County (26 mi) · Wabash County (28 mi).