14,300 people (2024 Census estimate, +4.1% since 2020)
381 square miles of land · 38 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.
2 active community water systems list Morgan County in the area they serve, reporting 9,869 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MORGAN COUNTY WATER DISTRICT buys surface water · local government · KY0880594 | 7,502 served |
| WEST LIBERTY WATER COMPANY surface water · private · KY0880452 | 2,367 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 35 people were held in Morgan County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 370 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 40.
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 Morgan County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $30.1 million — $26.5 million to run schools, about $14,129 per student, plus $1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5 million local (mostly property tax), $23.2 million state, $6.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $45.7 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 Morgan County about $6.8 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.
113 bridges in Morgan County: 57 in good condition, 50 fair, and 6 poor (5.3%). “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-437 over BIRCH FK OF WILLIAMS CRK · built 1976 | 643 vehicles a day |
| GILLIAM BRANCH RD over LICK BRANCH · built 1980 | 279 vehicles a day |
| KY-3345 over GRASSY CREEK · built 1970 | 117 vehicles a day |
| KY-1950 over BLACKWATER CREEK · built 1966 | 84 vehicles a day |
| HALSEY FRK over SALEM FORK CREEK · built 1970 | 68 vehicles a day |
| LITTLE CANEY BRANC over OPEN FORK · built 1978 | 66 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $7.4 million of work in Morgan County in fiscal 2025, about $542 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 Morgan 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 Morgan County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Elliott County (16 mi) · Wolfe County (18 mi) · Menifee County (18 mi) · Magoffin County (19 mi) · Rowan County (21 mi) · Johnson County (24 mi).