9,729 people (2024 Census estimate, −7.1% since 2020)
401 square miles of land · 24 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 Leslie County in the area they serve, reporting 9,614 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| HYDEN LESLIE CO WATER DISTRICT surface water · local government · KY0660204 | 9,614 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 158 people were held in Leslie County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 215.
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 Leslie County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $32.1 million — $23.3 million to run schools, about $14,046 per student, plus $8.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.2 million local (mostly property tax), $17.4 million state, $10.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $15 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 Leslie County about $7.3 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
112 bridges in Leslie County: 34 in good condition, 65 fair, and 13 poor (11.6%). “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-421 over MUNCY CREEK · built 1937 | 2,823 vehicles a day |
| US-421 over HENRYS FORK · built 1933 | 668 vehicles a day |
| KY-2057 over CUTSHIN CREEK · built 1977 | 562 vehicles a day |
| DRYHILL BRIDGE over MIDDLE FK KENTUCKY RVR · built 1965 | 338 vehicles a day |
| TURKEY FOOT RD over HALS FORK · built 1940 | 298 vehicles a day |
| ARMY TRAIL RD over MIDDLE FK KENTUCKY RVR · built 1940 | 235 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $1.4 million of work in Leslie County in fiscal 2025, about $130 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 Leslie 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 Leslie County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Perry County (14 mi) · Harlan County (18 mi) · Clay County (19 mi) · Owsley County (29 mi) · Letcher County (29 mi) · Knox County (29 mi).