99,582 people (2024 Census estimate, +7.1% since 2020)
438 square miles of land · 227 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 Madison County in the area they serve, reporting 91,379 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| RICHMOND UTILITIES surface water · local government · KY0760370 | 35,640 served |
| MADISON CO UTILITIES DISTRICT buys surface water · local government · KY0760224 | 25,120 served |
| SOUTHERN MADISON WATER DISTRICT buys surface water · local government · KY0760407 | 14,707 served |
| BEREA MUNICIPAL UTILITIES surface water · private · KY0760030 | 9,972 served |
| KIRKSVILLE WATER ASSOCIATION buys surface water · private · KY0760672 | 5,940 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 259 people were held in Madison County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 396.
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 Madison County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $156.3 million — $137.3 million to run schools, about $12,260 per student, plus $14.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $58.1 million local (mostly property tax), $81.8 million state, $22.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $108.3 million.
Spent $19.6 million — $18.6 million to run schools, about $17,169 per student, plus $507,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.6 million local (mostly property tax), $11.2 million state, $3.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $9.4 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 Madison County about $36.7 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.
157 bridges in Madison County: 39 in good condition, 105 fair, and 13 poor (8.3%). “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-25 over CSX RAILROAD SPUR · built 1943 | 17,806 vehicles a day |
| KY-594 over RED LICK CREEK · built 1951 | 1,270 vehicles a day |
| FOURMILE ROAD over OTTER CREEK · built 1979 | 947 vehicles a day |
| KY-594 over STILLHOUSE BRANCH · built 1947 | 696 vehicles a day |
| KY-3377 over OTTER CREEK · built 1982 | 507 vehicles a day |
| MEADOWBROOK ROAD over MUDDY CREEK · built 1930 | 504 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $66.1 million of work in Madison County in fiscal 2025, about $714 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 Madison 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 Madison County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Garrard County (16 mi) · Estill County (17 mi) · Clark County (18 mi) · Jessamine County (20 mi) · Fayette County (24 mi) · Powell County (25 mi).