61,700 people (2024 Census estimate, +7.2% since 2020)
282 square miles of land · 219 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 Scott County in the area they serve, reporting 44,608 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| GEORGETOWN MUNICIPAL WATER SERVICE surface water · local government · KY1050157 | 44,608 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 96 people were held in Scott County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 105.
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 Scott County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $184 million — $118.5 million to run schools, about $12,100 per student, plus $52.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $60.3 million local (mostly property tax), $70.3 million state, $14.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $169.8 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 Scott County about $20.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
182 bridges in Scott County: 53 in good condition, 113 fair, and 16 poor (8.8%). “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-620 over NS (CNO&TP) SYSTEM · built 1987 | 11,576 vehicles a day |
| LEMONS MILL RD over NS (CNO&TP) SYSTEM · built 1971 | 2,404 vehicles a day |
| DELEPLAIN RD over LANES RUN · built 1993 | 1,751 vehicles a day |
| LEESBURG PIKE over CHERRY RUN · built 1994 | 1,379 vehicles a day |
| KY-32 over LITTLE EAGLE CREEK · built 1970 | 585 vehicles a day |
| STONE RD over BOYD RUN · built 1990 | 424 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $5.5 million of work in Scott County in fiscal 2025, about $97 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 Scott 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 Scott County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Franklin County (16 mi) · Harrison County (17 mi) · Fayette County (18 mi) · Woodford County (19 mi) · Owen County (21 mi) · Bourbon County (21 mi).