34,862 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.2% since 2020)
309 square miles of land · 113 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.
18 active community water systems list Steuben County in the area they serve, reporting 17,399 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| ANGOLA WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · IN5276001 | 9,340 served |
| HAMILTON WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · IN5276023 | 2,675 served |
| FREMONT WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · IN5276006 | 2,138 served |
| ASHLEY WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · IN5276002 | 983 served |
| ORLAND WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · IN5276027 | 530 served |
| HUDSON WATER WORKS buys groundwater · local government · IN5276022 | 518 served |
| SILVER LAKE RV & MOBILE HOME ESTATES groundwater · private · IN5276018 | 272 served |
| HOLIDAY WOODS RECREATIONAL PARK groundwater · private · IN5276026 | 200 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 85 people were held in Steuben County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 397 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 109.
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 Steuben County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $43.2 million — $31.3 million to run schools, about $12,017 per student, plus $10.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $13.4 million local (mostly property tax), $23.4 million state, $2.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $18.2 million.
Spent $17.9 million — $14 million to run schools, about $14,228 per student, plus $2.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $9.7 million local (mostly property tax), $7.6 million state, $3.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $6.8 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 Steuben County about $10 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.
135 bridges in Steuben County: 66 in good condition, 67 fair, and 2 poor (1.5%). “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 675W over CROOKED CREEK · built 1967 | 431 vehicles a day |
| CR 600W over CROOKED CREEK · built 1965 | 166 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $6.6 million of work in Steuben County in fiscal 2025, about $191 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 Steuben 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 Steuben County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: DeKalb County (17 mi) · Branch County, MI (19 mi) · LaGrange County (22 mi) · Williams County, OH (22 mi) · Noble County (27 mi) · Hillsdale County, MI (27 mi).