37,673 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.7% since 2020)
252 square miles of land · 149 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 Clark County in the area they serve, reporting 37,189 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| WINCHESTER MUNICIPAL UTILITIES surface water · private · KY0250473 | 29,823 served |
| EAST CLARK CO WATER DISTRICT buys surface water · local government · KY0250981 | 7,366 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 235 people were held in Clark County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 204.
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 Clark County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $81.9 million — $72 million to run schools, about $13,438 per student, plus $5.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $30.1 million local (mostly property tax), $40.6 million state, $13.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $75.7 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 Clark County about $13.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
117 bridges in Clark County: 32 in good condition, 71 fair, and 14 poor (12.0%). “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-60 over I-64 · built 1959 | 6,197 vehicles a day |
| KY-1927 over FORK OF BOONE CREEK · built 1975 | 2,659 vehicles a day |
| MUDDY CREEK KY 974 over CSX RAILROAD · built 1970 | 1,522 vehicles a day |
| JACKSON STREET over Unnamed stream · built 1955 | 779 vehicles a day |
| KY-418 over BOONE CREEK · built 1976 | 690 vehicles a day |
| KY-1923 over TWO MILE CREEK · built 1972 | 277 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $501.4 million of work in Clark County in fiscal 2025, about $13,561 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 Clark 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 Clark County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Montgomery County (13 mi) · Bourbon County (16 mi) · Fayette County (18 mi) · Madison County (18 mi) · Powell County (20 mi) · Estill County (22 mi).