12,854 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.3% since 2020)
332 square miles of land · 39 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.
6 active community water systems list Webster County in the area they serve, reporting 15,420 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| WEBSTER CO WATER DISTRICT surface water · local government · KY1170995 | 5,940 served |
| PROVIDENCE WATER WORKS surface water · local government · KY1170361 | 4,538 served |
| SEBREE WATER DEPARTMENT buys surface water · local government · KY1170388 | 1,743 served |
| CLAY WATER WORKS buys surface water · local government · KY1170073 | 1,287 served |
| DIXON WATER DEPARTMENT buys surface water · local government · KY1170104 | 1,253 served |
| SLAUGHTERS WATER WORKS buys surface water · local government · KY1170400 | 659 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 161 people were held in Webster County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 216.
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 Webster County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $30.7 million — $28.2 million to run schools, about $12,992 per student, plus $1.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.4 million local (mostly property tax), $19.5 million state, $7.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $15.1 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 Webster County about $9.2 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.
143 bridges in Webster County: 12 in good condition, 116 fair, and 15 poor (10.5%). “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-56 over BR OF MOCK ROY CREEK · built 1963 | 3,376 vehicles a day |
| KY-56 over I 69 · built 1968 | 1,839 vehicles a day |
| KY-293 over OWENS CREEK · built 1935 | 931 vehicles a day |
| KY-1340 over LYNN FORK · built 1976 | 516 vehicles a day |
| KY-120 over BULL CREEK · built 1968 | 501 vehicles a day |
| KY-138 over DEER CREEK · built 1956 | 319 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $3.5 million of work in Webster County in fiscal 2025, about $265 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 Webster 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 Webster County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Hopkins County (16 mi) · Union County (17 mi) · Henderson County (20 mi) · McLean County (23 mi) · Crittenden County (26 mi) · Caldwell County (28 mi).