24,883 people (2024 Census estimate, +4.1% since 2020)
202 square miles of land · 123 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.
2 active community water systems list Anderson County in the area they serve, reporting 23,165 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| LAWRENCEBURG WATER & SEWER DEPT surface water · local government · KY0030239 | 14,748 served |
| SO ANDERSON WATER DISTRICT buys surface water · local government · KY0030660 | 8,417 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 74 people were held in Anderson County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 464 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 81.
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 Anderson County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $48.7 million — $45.8 million to run schools, about $12,208 per student, plus $1.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $16.4 million local (mostly property tax), $28.8 million state, $7 million federal. Long-term debt: $29.7 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 Anderson County about $10.7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
84 bridges in Anderson County: 15 in good condition, 60 fair, and 9 poor (10.7%). “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.
| KY-44 over TIMBER CREEK · built 1933 | 730 vehicles a day |
| KY-749 over BR OF HICKORY NUT CREEK · built 1950 | 554 vehicles a day |
| KY-512 over BENSON CREEK · built 1966 | 436 vehicles a day |
| KY-395 over BRANCH OF INDIAN CREEK · built 1950 | 428 vehicles a day |
| KY-53 over BLUEGRASS PARKWAY · built 1965 | 406 vehicles a day |
| KY-749 over HICKORY NUT CREEK · built 1950 | 211 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $46.8 million of work in Anderson County in fiscal 2025, about $1,961 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 Kentucky 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 Anderson 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 Anderson County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Woodford County (13 mi) · Mercer County (15 mi) · Franklin County (17 mi) · Spencer County (18 mi) · Washington County (20 mi) · Shelby County (21 mi).