21,851 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.5% since 2020)
385 square miles of land · 57 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.
3 active community water systems list Owen County in the area they serve, reporting 13,967 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| BBP WATER COMPANY groundwater · local government · IN5260001 | 9,903 served |
| CATARACT LAKE WATER CORPORATION groundwater · local government · IN5260002 | 3,215 served |
| GOSPORT WATER UTILITY groundwater · local government · IN5260003 | 849 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 49 people were held in Owen County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 364 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 83.
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.
1 school district has its office in Owen County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $35.5 million — $30.2 million to run schools, about $13,506 per student, plus $4.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $10.8 million local (mostly property tax), $20.8 million state, $4.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $20.7 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Owen County about $10.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
150 bridges in Owen County: 61 in good condition, 76 fair, and 13 poor (8.7%). “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.
| SR 246 over BR W FORK FISH CREEK · built 1986 | 1,188 vehicles a day |
| POTTERSVILLE RD over BRANCH OF MILLS CREEK · built 1940 | 860 vehicles a day |
| WHITE HILL RD over BRANCH OF SIXMILE CREEK · built 1940 | 200 vehicles a day |
| RATTLESNAKE RD over RATTLESNAKE CREEK · built 1965 | 190 vehicles a day |
| REYNOLDS RD over BR BEACH CREEK · built 1930 | 190 vehicles a day |
| LINGLE RD over INDIAN CREEK · built 1940 | 140 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $835,072 of work in Owen County in fiscal 2025, about $39 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 Owen 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 Owen County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
More of Indiana: the state government and every county in Indiana.
Nearby counties: Clay County (16 mi) · Monroe County (20 mi) · Greene County (21 mi) · Morgan County (24 mi) · Putnam County (24 mi) · Vigo County (30 mi).