140,702 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.0% since 2020)
395 square miles of land · 357 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 Monroe County in the area they serve, reporting 126,270 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CITY OF BLOOMINGTON UTILITIES surface water · local government · IN5253002 | 83,000 served |
| ELLETTSVILLE WATER WORKS buys surface water · local government · IN5253004 | 14,500 served |
| SOUTHERN MONROE WATER AUTHORITY buys surface water · private · IN5253007 | 8,877 served |
| VAN BUREN WATER, INC. buys surface water · local government · IN5253008 | 6,670 served |
| B&B WATER PROJECT, INC. buys surface water · private · IN5253001 | 4,695 served |
| WASHINGTON TWP WATER AUTHORITY buys surface water · local government · IN5253009 | 3,825 served |
| EAST MONROE WATER CORPORATION buys surface water · local government · IN5253003 | 3,648 served |
| RHS WATER CORPORATION buys surface water · private · IN5253015 | 870 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 216 people were held in Monroe County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 216 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 301.
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.
2 school districts have their office in Monroe County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $183.2 million — $140.8 million to run schools, about $13,393 per student, plus $25.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $68.5 million local (mostly property tax), $81.7 million state, $21.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $108.5 million.
Spent $40.7 million — $34.4 million to run schools, about $12,558 per student, plus $3.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $16.4 million local (mostly property tax), $24.2 million state, $4.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $32.7 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 Monroe County about $37.9 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
234 bridges in Monroe County: 142 in good condition, 83 fair, and 9 poor (3.8%). “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.
| BUSINESS 37 NORTH over BEANBLOSSOM CREEK · built 1946 | 11,194 vehicles a day |
| N EAGELSON AVENUE over INDIANA RR CO · built 1952 | 2,652 vehicles a day |
| W CLUB HOUSE DRIVE over UNNAMED TRIBUTARY TO GRI · built 1960 | 950 vehicles a day |
| HEADLEY STREET over GRIFFY RESERVOIR · built 1977 | 825 vehicles a day |
| DILLMAN ROAD over CLEAR CREEK · built 1910 | 558 vehicles a day |
| SOUTH ROCKPORT RD over BRANCH CLEAR OF CREEK · built 1980 | 310 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $239.8 million of work in Monroe County in fiscal 2025, about $1,716 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 Monroe 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 Monroe County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Brown County (16 mi) · Owen County (20 mi) · Lawrence County (22 mi) · Morgan County (23 mi) · Greene County (27 mi) · Jackson County (31 mi).