7,263 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.0% since 2020)
234 square miles of land · 31 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.
1 active community water system list Elliott County in the area they serve, reporting 3,528 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| SANDY HOOK WATER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · KY0320383 | 3,528 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 17 people were held in Elliott County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 370 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 21.
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 Elliott County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $17.1 million — $14.1 million to run schools, about $14,699 per student, plus $2.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.3 million local (mostly property tax), $10.8 million state, $4.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $5.8 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 Elliott County about $3.3 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
53 bridges in Elliott County: 4 in good condition, 40 fair, and 9 poor (17.0%). “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-504 over LITTLE CANEY CREEK · built 1966 | 425 vehicles a day |
| KY-650 over LITTLE SANDY RIVER · built 1972 | 364 vehicles a day |
| KY-706 over LAUREL BRANCH · built 1980 | 157 vehicles a day |
| KY-1208 over LEFT FK OF MIDDLE FORK · built 1982 | 124 vehicles a day |
| Old Blaine Trace over Lt Fork of Little Sandy · built 1950 | 65 vehicles a day |
| WALKER MOORE RD over MIDDLE FORK · built 2001 | 39 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $3.5 million of work in Elliott County in fiscal 2025, about $474 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 Elliott 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 Elliott County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Carter County (14 mi) · Morgan County (16 mi) · Rowan County (19 mi) · Lawrence County (20 mi) · Johnson County (24 mi) · Boyd County (28 mi).