27,728 people (2024 Census estimate, +3.1% since 2020)
190 square miles of land · 146 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.
4 active community water systems list Woodford County in the area they serve, reporting 26,858 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| VERSAILLES WATER SYSTEM surface water · local government · KY1200439 | 17,822 served |
| SO WOODFORD CO WATER DISTRICT buys surface water · local government · KY1200411 | 4,218 served |
| NE WOODFORD CO WATER DISTRICT buys surface water · local government · KY1200310 | 2,644 served |
| MIDWAY MUNICIPAL WATER WORKS buys surface water · local government · KY1200283 | 2,174 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 103 people were held in Woodford County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 97.
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 Woodford County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $74.6 million — $53.9 million to run schools, about $13,439 per student, plus $18 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $31.1 million local (mostly property tax), $25.7 million state, $6.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $15.9 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 Woodford County about $13 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.
60 bridges in Woodford County: 15 in good condition, 38 fair, and 7 poor (11.7%). “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-1681 over SOUTH ELKHORN CREEK · built 1949 | 2,188 vehicles a day |
| KY-1685 over SOUTH ELKHORN CREEK · built 1972 | 1,228 vehicles a day |
| PAYNES DEPOT RD over S ELKHORN CR · built 1987 | 1,050 vehicles a day |
| KY-1659 over CAMDEN CREEK · built 1970 | 354 vehicles a day |
| KY-1685 over GLENS CREEK · built 1956 | 322 vehicles a day |
| KY-1965 over TANNERS CREEK · built 1970 | 202 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $6.4 million of work in Woodford County in fiscal 2025, about $238 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 Woodford 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 Woodford County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Anderson County (13 mi) · Jessamine County (15 mi) · Franklin County (15 mi) · Fayette County (16 mi) · Mercer County (17 mi) · Scott County (19 mi).