30,777 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.5% since 2020)
413 square miles of land · 75 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 Wabash County in the area they serve, reporting 20,985 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| INDIANA AMERICAN WATER - WABASH groundwater · private · IN5285003 | 12,140 served |
| NORTH MANCHESTER WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · IN5285009 | 6,100 served |
| LAFONTAINE WATER COMPANY groundwater · local government · IN5285004 | 906 served |
| LAGRO MUNICIPAL WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · IN5285005 | 438 served |
| JOSIAH WHITES groundwater · private · IN5285020 | 416 served |
| ROANN WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · IN5285013 | 400 served |
| INDIANA AMERICAN WATER - SOMERSET groundwater · private · IN5285002 | 245 served |
| LAKE VIEW MOBILE HOME PARK groundwater · private · IN5285006 | 90 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 72 people were held in Wabash County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 386 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 92.
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 Wabash County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $27.7 million — $23 million to run schools, about $10,162 per student, plus $4.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $9.7 million local (mostly property tax), $17.1 million state, $4.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $3.3 million.
Spent $20.7 million — $19.3 million to run schools, about $12,562 per student, plus $298,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.9 million local (mostly property tax), $14 million state, $2.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $22.1 million.
Spent $20.8 million — $18.1 million to run schools, about $12,728 per student, plus $2.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.5 million local (mostly property tax), $12.9 million state, $4.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $16.6 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 Wabash County about $12.3 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.
192 bridges in Wabash County: 55 in good condition, 124 fair, and 13 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 500 S over BACK CREEK · built 1979 | 600 vehicles a day |
| WATERWORKS RD over TREATY CREEK · built 1983 | 520 vehicles a day |
| HANGING ROCK RD over SALAMONIE RIVER · built 1963 | 375 vehicles a day |
| CR 400 W over FAIRVIEW CREEK · built 1958 | 230 vehicles a day |
| CR 400 E over LAGRO CREEK · built 1975 | 225 vehicles a day |
| CR 500 W over MILL CREEK · built 1962 | 225 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $28.6 million of work in Wabash County in fiscal 2025, about $923 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 Wabash 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 Wabash County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Miami County (14 mi) · Huntington County (17 mi) · Grant County (24 mi) · Whitley County (25 mi) · Kosciusko County (28 mi) · Fulton County (28 mi).