329,437 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.1% since 2020)
284 square miles of land · 1,161 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 Fayette County in the area they serve, reporting 669,042 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| KENTUCKY-AMERICAN WATER CO surface water · private · KY0340250 | 669,042 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 847 people were held in Fayette County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 917.
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 Fayette County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $865.3 million — $758.8 million to run schools, about $18,318 per student, plus $81.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $418.8 million local (mostly property tax), $308.8 million state, $110.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $459.9 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: Relatively Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Fayette County about $113.2 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.
200 bridges in Fayette County: 46 in good condition, 140 fair, and 14 poor (7.0%). “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.
| S 75 NC over I 64 · built 1964 | 92,932 vehicles a day |
| SB 75 NON-CARDINAL over RELOCATED KEARNEY ROAD · built 1963 | 30,366 vehicles a day |
| US-25 over I-75 · built 1963 | 26,057 vehicles a day |
| ARMSTRONG MILL ROA over BR OF W.HICKMAN CREEK · built 1970 | 8,760 vehicles a day |
| ARMSTRONG MILL ROA over W. HICKMAN CREEK · built 1970 | 8,760 vehicles a day |
| CENTRE PARKWAY over W. HICKMAN CREEK · built 1965 | 5,153 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $309.5 million of work in Fayette County in fiscal 2025, about $960 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 Fayette 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 Fayette County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Jessamine County (13 mi) · Woodford County (16 mi) · Bourbon County (18 mi) · Clark County (18 mi) · Scott County (18 mi) · Madison County (24 mi).