73,825 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.8% since 2020)
404 square miles of land · 183 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.
13 active community water systems list Morgan County in the area they serve, reporting 58,493 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MARTINSVILLE WATER UTILITY groundwater · local government · IN5255009 | 15,000 served |
| INDIANA AMERICAN WATER - MOORESVILLE groundwater · private · IN5255006 | 10,083 served |
| MORGAN COUNTY RURAL WATER COMPANY groundwater · local government · IN5255010 | 8,800 served |
| HILL WATER CORPORATION groundwater · private · IN5255021 | 8,200 served |
| CITIZENS WATER - MORGAN buys groundwater · local government · IN5255019 | 5,705 served |
| TRI-COUNTY CONSERVANCY DISTRICT buys groundwater · local government · IN5255022 | 3,078 served |
| MAPLETURN UTILITIES, INC. groundwater · private · IN5255004 | 1,725 served |
| BROOKLYN WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · IN5255002 | 1,600 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 258 people were held in Morgan County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 552 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 304.
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 Morgan County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $58.1 million — $45.9 million to run schools, about $10,527 per student, plus $9.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $17 million local (mostly property tax), $34.7 million state, $7.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $44.3 million.
Spent $62 million — $55 million to run schools, about $13,558 per student, plus $6.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $15.3 million local (mostly property tax), $38.3 million state, $7.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $13.8 million.
Spent $20.2 million — $16.1 million to run schools, about $10,343 per student, plus $3.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.5 million local (mostly property tax), $11.6 million state, $1.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $21 million.
Spent $5.6 million — $4.6 million to run schools, about $15,092 per student, plus $694,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.7 million local (mostly property tax), $3 million state, $241,000 federal. Long-term debt: $1 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 Morgan County about $26.5 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.
253 bridges in Morgan County: 126 in good condition, 118 fair, and 9 poor (3.6%). “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.
| OLD SR 37 over BLUFF CREEK · built 1930 | 3,740 vehicles a day |
| MAHALASVILLE RD over INDIAN TRACE CREEK · built 1926 | 360 vehicles a day |
| BALLINGER RD over GOOSE CREEK · built 1927 | 360 vehicles a day |
| BIG BEND RD over CROOKED CREEK · built 1985 | 360 vehicles a day |
| ABRAHAM RD over NORTH PRONG STOTTS CREEK · built 1925 | 270 vehicles a day |
| MCCLURE RD over GASH BRANCH · built 1968 | 190 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $-4,904,483 of work in Morgan County in fiscal 2025, about $-68 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 Morgan 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 Morgan County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Johnson County (19 mi) · Hendricks County (20 mi) · Monroe County (23 mi) · Brown County (23 mi) · Owen County (24 mi) · Putnam County (25 mi).