106,166 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.0% since 2020)
404 square miles of land · 263 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.
11 active community water systems list Vigo County in the area they serve, reporting 85,722 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| INDIANA AMERICAN WATER - TERRE HAUTE groundwater · private · IN5284012 | 67,765 served |
| SEELYVILLE WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · IN5284011 | 6,393 served |
| WEST TERRE HAUTE WATER groundwater · local government · IN5284015 | 4,075 served |
| SULLIVAN-VIGO RURAL WATER CORP. buys groundwater · private · IN5284021 | 2,765 served |
| FAYETTE TOWNSHIP WATER ASSN. groundwater · local government · IN5284002 | 2,000 served |
| FCI & FPC - TERRE HAUTE groundwater · federal · IN5284018 | 1,390 served |
| SISTERS OF PROVIDENCE/ST. MARY OF WOODS groundwater · private · IN5284020 | 900 served |
| TRAILS EDGE APTS groundwater · private · IN5284022 | 260 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 364 people were held in Vigo County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 524 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 295.
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 Vigo County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $172.2 million — $150.6 million to run schools, about $10,924 per student, plus $17.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $47.4 million local (mostly property tax), $115.8 million state, $20.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $30 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 Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Vigo County about $46.2 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
296 bridges in Vigo County: 134 in good condition, 148 fair, and 14 poor (4.7%). “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.
| US 40 over ABANDONED RR · built 1921 | 12,258 vehicles a day |
| HULMAN St over NEW THOMPSON DITCH · built 1976 | 6,257 vehicles a day |
| CHAMBERLAIN STREET over LOST CREEK · built 1962 | 4,441 vehicles a day |
| COLLEGE Ave over NEW THOMPSON DITCH · built 1976 | 2,057 vehicles a day |
| SR 246 over WEST FORK TURMAN CREEK · built 1936 | 1,188 vehicles a day |
| SR 246 over EAST FORK TURMAN CREEK · built 1936 | 1,188 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $-22,861,793 of work in Vigo County in fiscal 2025, about $-215 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 Vigo 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 Vigo County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Clay County (15 mi) · Clark County, IL (22 mi) · Sullivan County (24 mi) · Edgar County, IL (26 mi) · Parke County (26 mi) · Vermillion County (29 mi).