104,457 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.0% since 2020)
458 square miles of land · 228 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 Daviess County in the area they serve, reporting 112,731 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| OWENSBORO MUNICIPAL UTILITIES groundwater · local government · KY0300336 | 60,473 served |
| DAVIESS CO WATER DISTRICT buys groundwater · local government · KY0300387 | 33,655 served |
| E DAVIESS CO WATER ASSOC INC buys groundwater · private · KY0300109 | 11,997 served |
| WHITESVILLE WATER WORKS buys groundwater · local government · KY0300467 | 3,672 served |
| NORTH MCLEAN CO WATER DISTRICT buys surface water · local government · KY0300320 | 2,934 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 557 people were held in Daviess County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 540.
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 Daviess County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $180.3 million — $153.7 million to run schools, about $13,767 per student, plus $21.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $68.6 million local (mostly property tax), $84.1 million state, $24.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $98 million.
Spent $88.5 million — $81 million to run schools, about $16,080 per student, plus $5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $22.5 million local (mostly property tax), $44.5 million state, $19.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $44.2 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: Relatively Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Daviess County about $69.8 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.
282 bridges in Daviess County: 63 in good condition, 202 fair, and 17 poor (6.0%). “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.
| KY-2698 over US 60 BYPASS · built 1998 | 16,258 vehicles a day |
| KY-2262 over OHIO RIVER · built 1940 | 7,268 vehicles a day |
| LEWISPORT RD over ACCESS SPUR TO OMU PLANT · built 1965 | 6,722 vehicles a day |
| VEACH RD over HORSE FK OF PANTHER CRK · built 1980 | 4,819 vehicles a day |
| KY-54 over BRANCH OF DESERTER CREEK · built 1927 | 3,287 vehicles a day |
| KY-54 over BRANCH OF DESERTED CREEK · built 1927 | 3,287 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $67.5 million of work in Daviess County in fiscal 2025, about $654 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 Daviess 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 Daviess County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: McLean County (17 mi) · Hancock County (18 mi) · Spencer County, IN (20 mi) · Ohio County (22 mi) · Henderson County (27 mi) · Warrick County, IN (27 mi).