30,512 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.2% since 2020)
467 square miles of land · 65 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 Muhlenberg County in the area they serve, reporting 36,058 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MUHLENBERG CO WATER DISTRICT buys surface water · local government · KY0890302 | 16,845 served |
| MUHLENBERG CO WATER DISTRICT #3 buys surface water · local government · KY0890304 | 7,075 served |
| GREENVILLE UTILITIES COMMISSION surface water · local government · KY0890170 | 5,649 served |
| CENTRAL CITY WATER & SEWER surface water · local government · KY0890071 | 5,601 served |
| DRAKESBORO WATER DEPARTMENT buys surface water · local government · KY0890106 | 888 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 213 people were held in Muhlenberg County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 242.
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 Muhlenberg County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $68.6 million — $61.2 million to run schools, about $13,648 per student, plus $5.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $22.7 million local (mostly property tax), $39.4 million state, $11.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $29.7 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: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Muhlenberg County about $14.4 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
152 bridges in Muhlenberg County: 19 in good condition, 126 fair, and 7 poor (4.6%). “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-431 over PLUM CRK · built 1930 | 5,440 vehicles a day |
| KY-70 over ISAAC CREEK · built 1948 | 1,680 vehicles a day |
| KY-181 over BAT EAST CREEK · built 1934 | 1,636 vehicles a day |
| KY-189 over JARREL CREEK · built 1934 | 723 vehicles a day |
| KY-2107 over BR OF POND CREEK · built 1928 | 232 vehicles a day |
| GREENBRIER LN over ROAD CREEK · built 1980 | 10 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $7.9 million of work in Muhlenberg County in fiscal 2025, about $257 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 Muhlenberg 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 Muhlenberg County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: McLean County (23 mi) · Hopkins County (23 mi) · Ohio County (24 mi) · Butler County (25 mi) · Todd County (26 mi) · Logan County (28 mi).