21,221 people (2024 Census estimate, +3.8% since 2020)
570 square miles of land · 37 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.
3 active community water systems list Breckinridge County in the area they serve, reporting 21,624 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| HARDINSBURG RO WTP groundwater · local government · KY0140966 | 18,437 served |
| IRVINGTON WATER SYSTEM buys groundwater · local government · KY0140206 | 1,627 served |
| CLOVERPORT WATER & SEWER SYSTEM buys groundwater · local government · KY0140079 | 1,560 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 176 people were held in Breckinridge County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 148.
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 Breckinridge County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $40.8 million — $36.3 million to run schools, about $13,209 per student, plus $2.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11.4 million local (mostly property tax), $36.9 million state, $8.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $40.5 million.
Spent $4.9 million — $4.6 million to run schools, about $16,297 per student, plus $58,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $670,000 local (mostly property tax), $3.9 million state, $1.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $3.9 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 Breckinridge County about $11.7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
91 bridges in Breckinridge County: 34 in good condition, 50 fair, and 7 poor (7.7%). “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-79 over LONG LICK CREEK · built 1960 | 1,658 vehicles a day |
| US-60X over CLOVER CREEK · built 1922 | 649 vehicles a day |
| KY-2780 over SINKING CREEK · built 1982 | 282 vehicles a day |
| CARL NEWBY RD over ROCK LICK CREEK · built 1965 | 89 vehicles a day |
| KY-259 over LICK RUN CREEK · built 1950 | 75 vehicles a day |
| Chester Haynes Rd. over BR OFF SINKING CREEK · built 1920 | 30 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $9.9 million of work in Breckinridge County in fiscal 2025, about $486 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 Breckinridge 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 Breckinridge County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Meade County (18 mi) · Hancock County (20 mi) · Grayson County (23 mi) · Perry County, IN (23 mi) · Hardin County (26 mi) · Ohio County (31 mi).