10,696 people (2024 Census estimate, −4.9% since 2020)
230 square miles of land · 47 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 Martin County in the area they serve, reporting 9,003 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MARTIN CO WATER DISTRICT #1 surface water · local government · KY0800273 | 9,003 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 27 people were held in Martin County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 370 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 32.
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 Martin County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $28.4 million — $25.9 million to run schools, about $14,730 per student, plus $224,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.6 million local (mostly property tax), $36 million state, $7.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $37.5 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 Martin County about $8.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
70 bridges in Martin County: 22 in good condition, 38 fair, and 10 poor (14.3%). “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.
| KY-40 over Rockcastle Creek · built 1953 | 4,804 vehicles a day |
| KY-292 over Long Branch · built 1958 | 935 vehicles a day |
| KY-1224 over Rockhouse Fork · built 1973 | 676 vehicles a day |
| KY-1714 over WOLF CREEK · built 1976 | 477 vehicles a day |
| KY-3407 over Wolf Creek · built 1981 | 362 vehicles a day |
| KY-908 over Turkey Creek · built 1970 | 348 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $2.9 million of work in Martin County in fiscal 2025, about $260 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 Martin 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 Martin County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Johnson County (18 mi) · Mingo County, WV (20 mi) · Floyd County (21 mi) · Pike County (22 mi) · Lawrence County (23 mi) · Wayne County, WV (24 mi).