28,467 people (2024 Census estimate, +3.5% since 2020)
552 square miles of land · 52 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.
7 active community water systems list Logan County in the area they serve, reporting 30,357 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| EAST LOGAN WATER DISTRICT buys surface water · local government · KY0710951 | 9,060 served |
| RUSSELLVILLE MUN WATER WORKS buys surface water · local government · KY0710378 | 8,613 served |
| SOUTH LOGAN WATER ASSOCIATION buys surface water · private · KY0710707 | 5,198 served |
| LEWISBURG WATER WORKS buys surface water · local government · KY0710247 | 3,119 served |
| AUBURN MUN WATER WORKS buys surface water · local government · KY0710012 | 1,931 served |
| NORTH LOGAN WATER DISTRICT buys surface water · local government · KY0710318 | 1,649 served |
| ADAIRVILLE WATER WORKS buys surface water · local government · KY0710001 | 787 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 170 people were held in Logan County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 153.
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 Logan County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $49.2 million — $43.3 million to run schools, about $12,613 per student, plus $4.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11.5 million local (mostly property tax), $28.4 million state, $8.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $19.2 million.
Spent $18.3 million — $17 million to run schools, about $14,527 per student, plus $809,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.6 million local (mostly property tax), $9.9 million state, $5.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $6.2 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 Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Logan County about $17.4 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
136 bridges in Logan County: 24 in good condition, 107 fair, and 5 poor (3.7%). “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.
| US-68X over RJC RAILROAD · built 1936 | 7,976 vehicles a day |
| KY-1785 over ROCKY CR EMBYMNT-L-MALON · built 1959 | 392 vehicles a day |
| US 68 LOOP No. 1 over RJC RAILROAD · built 1928 | 187 vehicles a day |
| LIBERTY CHURCH RD over GASPER RIVER · built 1965 | 112 vehicles a day |
| COOPERSTOWN-QUALIT over MUD RIVER · built 1976 | 83 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $2.4 million of work in Logan County in fiscal 2025, about $86 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 Logan 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 Logan County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Todd County (17 mi) · Simpson County (18 mi) · Robertson County, TN (23 mi) · Butler County (26 mi) · Warren County (27 mi) · Muhlenberg County (28 mi).