34,532 people (2024 Census estimate, −3.5% since 2020)
393 square miles of land · 88 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 Floyd County in the area they serve, reporting 44,358 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| PRESTONSBURG CITY UTILITIES surface water · local government · KY0360358 | 26,788 served |
| SOUTHERN WATER & SEWER DISTRICT surface water · local government · KY0360026 | 15,110 served |
| MARTIN WATER DEPARTMENT buys surface water · local government · KY0360272 | 1,167 served |
| WHEELWRIGHT UTILITY COMMISSION groundwater (surface-influenced) · local government · KY0360463 | 834 served |
| FRANCIS WATER COMPANY groundwater · private · KY0360152 | 459 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 99 people were held in Floyd County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 142.
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 Floyd County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $90.3 million — $83.6 million to run schools, about $15,024 per student, plus $2.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $16.1 million local (mostly property tax), $59.1 million state, $27.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $59 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 Floyd County about $105.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
161 bridges in Floyd County: 40 in good condition, 107 fair, and 14 poor (8.7%). “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-3 over CSX RR & Levisa Fork · built 1992 | 5,634 vehicles a day |
| KY-3680 over LEFT FK.-BEAVER CREEK · built 1979 | 2,182 vehicles a day |
| KY-979 over MUD CREEK · built 1976 | 2,069 vehicles a day |
| KY-194 over Cow Creek · built 1974 | 802 vehicles a day |
| KY-1091 over LEFT FK BEAVER CREEK · built 1953 | 329 vehicles a day |
| KY-2557 over Levisa Fork & Old US 23 · built 1920 | 265 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $71 million of work in Floyd County in fiscal 2025, about $1,976 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 Floyd 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 Floyd County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Knott County (18 mi) · Pike County (19 mi) · Magoffin County (21 mi) · Johnson County (21 mi) · Martin County (21 mi) · Letcher County (31 mi).