66,842 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.7% since 2020)
658 square miles of land · 102 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.
8 active community water systems list Pulaski County in the area they serve, reporting 102,144 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| SOMERSET WATER SERVICE surface water · local government · KY1000403 | 29,700 served |
| WESTERN PULASKI CO WATER DISTRICT buys surface water · local government · KY1000363 | 23,264 served |
| SOUTHEASTERN WATER ASSOC/NELSON VALLEY buys surface water · private · KY1000311 | 21,895 served |
| EUBANK WATER SYSTEM buys surface water · local government · KY1000124 | 12,492 served |
| SCIENCE HILL WATER WORKS buys surface water · local government · KY1000362 | 5,940 served |
| BRONSTON WATER ASSOCIATON INC buys surface water · private · KY1000043 | 5,114 served |
| BURNSIDE WATER COMPANY surface water · private · KY1000050 | 2,284 served |
| WOODSON BEND PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOC surface water · private · KY1000973 | 1,455 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 333 people were held in Pulaski County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 322.
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.
3 school districts have their office in Pulaski County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $130.5 million — $103.3 million to run schools, about $12,724 per student, plus $24 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $32.9 million local (mostly property tax), $64.5 million state, $22.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $50.3 million.
Spent $24.1 million — $21.9 million to run schools, about $13,533 per student, plus $1.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $9.2 million local (mostly property tax), $12.9 million state, $4.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $15 million.
Spent $6 million — $5.9 million to run schools, about $12,338 per student, plus $26,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.2 million local (mostly property tax), $3.7 million state, $1.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.7 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 Pulaski County about $32.1 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.
181 bridges in Pulaski County: 37 in good condition, 135 fair, and 9 poor (5.0%). “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-80 over Fishing Creek · built 1951 | 5,242 vehicles a day |
| KY-196 over LITTLE WHITE OAK CREEK · built 1989 | 2,710 vehicles a day |
| OLD SHOPVILLE RD over FLAT LICK CREEK · built 1932 | 604 vehicles a day |
| KENO RD (KY-751) over NS (CNO&TP) SYSTEM · built 1963 | 558 vehicles a day |
| BEECHER ST over SINKING CREEK · built 1973 | 288 vehicles a day |
| STAB RD over BUCK CREEK · built 1932 | 175 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $27.6 million of work in Pulaski County in fiscal 2025, about $424 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 Pulaski 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 Pulaski County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Rockcastle County (23 mi) · Casey County (24 mi) · Lincoln County (25 mi) · Laurel County (25 mi) · Wayne County (25 mi) · McCreary County (26 mi).