47,811 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.7% since 2020)
411 square miles of land · 116 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 Noble County in the area they serve, reporting 21,150 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| KENDALLVILLE WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · IN5257008 | 10,300 served |
| LIGONIER WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · IN5257010 | 4,405 served |
| AVILLA WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · IN5257002 | 2,700 served |
| ALBION WATER & SEWER groundwater · local government · IN5257001 | 2,349 served |
| CROMWELL WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · IN5257004 | 550 served |
| EAGLES NEST ESTATES groundwater · private · IN5257006 | 350 served |
| CHAIN O LAKES CORRECTIONAL FACILITY groundwater · state · IN5257023 | 186 served |
| ROME CITY HOUSING AUTH. - WARRENER COURT groundwater · private · IN5257024 | 94 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 197 people were held in Noble County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 666 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 147.
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 Noble County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $43.8 million — $36.2 million to run schools, about $10,595 per student, plus $7.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $14.6 million local (mostly property tax), $26.3 million state, $4.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $35.7 million.
Spent $35 million — $26.2 million to run schools, about $12,040 per student, plus $7.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $12.2 million local (mostly property tax), $19.9 million state, $3.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.3 million.
Spent $17.6 million — $14.3 million to run schools, about $12,468 per student, plus $2.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.9 million local (mostly property tax), $10.7 million state, $1.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $12.7 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 Noble County about $13.1 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.
88 bridges in Noble County: 34 in good condition, 48 fair, and 6 poor (6.8%). “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.
| CR 600N over GRETZINGER DITCH · built 1920 | 1,840 vehicles a day |
| PERRY RD over ELKHART RIVER · built 1969 | 1,090 vehicles a day |
| CR 150E over CROFT DITCH · built 1920 | 770 vehicles a day |
| CR 300W over N BRANCH ELKHART RIVER · built 1960 | 480 vehicles a day |
| CR 1100W over ELKHART RIVER · built 1960 | 300 vehicles a day |
| CR 225E over CSX RR · built 1906 | 170 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $20.1 million of work in Noble County in fiscal 2025, about $424 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 Noble 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 Noble County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: LaGrange County (16 mi) · Whitley County (19 mi) · DeKalb County (21 mi) · Kosciusko County (26 mi) · Elkhart County (27 mi) · Steuben County (27 mi).