28,345 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.4% since 2020)
514 square miles of land · 55 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.
5 active community water systems list Washington County in the area they serve, reporting 23,363 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| EAST WASHINGTON RURAL WATER buys surface water · local government · IN5288002 | 8,613 served |
| SALEM WATER WORKS surface water · local government · IN5288005 | 8,200 served |
| POSEY TOWNSHIP WATER CORP. buys surface water · local government · IN5288006 | 3,500 served |
| NEW PEKIN WATER UTILITY buys surface water · local government · IN5288004 | 2,150 served |
| CAMPBELLSBURG WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · IN5288001 | 900 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 133 people were held in Washington County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 752 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 190.
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 Washington County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $27.3 million — $18.7 million to run schools, about $10,700 per student, plus $7.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.9 million local (mostly property tax), $13.6 million state, $7.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $11.9 million.
Spent $21.1 million — $16.9 million to run schools, about $12,579 per student, plus $3.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.7 million local (mostly property tax), $12.2 million state, $4 million federal. Long-term debt: $20 million.
Spent $13.2 million — $11.1 million to run schools, about $11,921 per student, plus $1.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.2 million local (mostly property tax), $8.9 million state, $1 million federal. Long-term debt: $3.1 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 Washington County about $12.9 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
174 bridges in Washington County: 77 in good condition, 94 fair, and 3 poor (1.7%). “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.
| MAIN ST over S FK BLUE RIVER · built 1884 | 613 vehicles a day |
| C-BURG & LIVONIA over LOST River · built 1966 | 225 vehicles a day |
| FRANKLIN BOTTOMS over CAMMIE THOMAS DITCH · built 1930 | 44 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $6.8 million of work in Washington County in fiscal 2025, about $240 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 Washington 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 Washington County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Scott County (20 mi) · Orange County (21 mi) · Jackson County (22 mi) · Floyd County (22 mi) · Clark County (23 mi) · Lawrence County (26 mi).