19,320 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.9% since 2020)
382 square miles of land · 51 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.
6 active community water systems list Perry County in the area they serve, reporting 17,527 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| TELL CITY WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · IN5262004 | 9,315 served |
| AND-TRO WATER AUTHORITY - DISTRICT 1 buys groundwater · private · IN5262001 | 2,833 served |
| AND-TRO WATER AUTHORITY - DISTRICT 2 buys surface water · private · IN5262003 | 1,798 served |
| CANNELTON UTILITIES groundwater · local government · IN5262002 | 1,658 served |
| TROY WATER UTILITY groundwater · local government · IN5262005 | 1,223 served |
| TROY TOWNSHIP WATER ASSOCIATION buys groundwater · local government · IN5262006 | 700 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 84 people were held in Perry County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 688 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 80.
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 Perry County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $19.6 million — $16.4 million to run schools, about $11,693 per student, plus $2.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.4 million local (mostly property tax), $13.3 million state, $2 million federal. Long-term debt: $8.7 million.
Spent $18.5 million — $15.9 million to run schools, about $12,338 per student, plus $2.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.4 million local (mostly property tax), $11.7 million state, $2.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $6.5 million.
Spent $3.2 million — $2.8 million to run schools, about $12,790 per student, plus $370,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $271,000 local (mostly property tax), $2.3 million state, $829,000 federal. Long-term debt: $1.7 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 Perry County about $11.5 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.
149 bridges in Perry County: 62 in good condition, 84 fair, and 3 poor (2.0%). “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 66 over DEER CREEK · built 1970 | 647 vehicles a day |
| CR 88 over DEER CREEK · built 1994 | 125 vehicles a day |
| CR 38 over Branch of Oil Creek · built 1945 | 120 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $18.2 million of work in Perry County in fiscal 2025, about $949 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 Perry 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 Perry County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Crawford County (18 mi) · Hancock County, KY (19 mi) · Spencer County (21 mi) · Breckinridge County, KY (23 mi) · Dubois County (24 mi) · Meade County, KY (24 mi).