11,163 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.4% since 2020)
329 square miles of land · 34 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.
3 active community water systems list Monroe County in the area they serve, reporting 13,497 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MONROE COUNTY WATER DISTRICT surface water · local government · KY0860150 | 9,608 served |
| TOMPKINSVILLE WATER WORKS surface water · local government · KY0860426 | 2,404 served |
| FOUNTAIN RUN WATER DISTRICT #1 buys surface water · local government · KY0860141 | 1,485 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 29 people were held in Monroe County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2016), or 417 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2011 it was about 21.
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 Monroe County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $37.7 million — $29.1 million to run schools, about $16,268 per student, plus $7.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.6 million local (mostly property tax), $16.9 million state, $10.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $11 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 Monroe County about $5.7 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.
69 bridges in Monroe County: 14 in good condition, 50 fair, and 5 poor (7.2%). “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-63 over LONG BRANCH · built 1928 | 2,321 vehicles a day |
| KY-100 over LITTLE SULPHUR CREEK · built 1929 | 569 vehicles a day |
| KY-678 over SKAGGS CREEK · built 1949 | 300 vehicles a day |
| KY-678 over PETER CREEK · built 1967 | 132 vehicles a day |
| OTIA-BLYTHE RD over SULPHUR CREEK · built 1975 | 52 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $646,226 of work in Monroe County in fiscal 2025, about $57 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 Monroe 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 Monroe County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Clay County, TN (15 mi) · Cumberland County (19 mi) · Metcalfe County (20 mi) · Macon County, TN (20 mi) · Barren County (21 mi) · Jackson County, TN (25 mi).