67,097 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.3% since 2020)
422 square miles of land · 159 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.
17 active community water systems list Allegany County in the area they serve, reporting 65,730 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CITY OF CUMBERLAND surface water · local government · MD0010008 | 27,039 served |
| CITY OF FROSTBURG surface water · local government · MD0010011 | 11,000 served |
| EASTERN REGION ALLEGANY DISTRIB. SYSTEM buys surface water · local government · MD0010005 | 5,703 served |
| LAVALE SANITARY COMMISSION buys surface water · local government · MD0010016 | 5,500 served |
| MIDLAND-LONACONING surface water · local government · MD0010018 | 5,000 served |
| WESTERN REGION ALLEGANY DISTRIB. SYSTEM buys surface water · local government · MD0010009 | 4,955 served |
| MD AMERICAN WATER - PINTO buys surface water · private · MD0010003 | 2,615 served |
| TOWN OF WESTERNPORT surface water · local government · MD0010033 | 2,200 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 205 people were held in Allegany County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 477 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 155.
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 Allegany County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $164.3 million — $149.6 million to run schools, about $18,290 per student, plus $13.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $37.9 million local (mostly property tax), $105.4 million state, $22.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $13.3 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 Allegany County about $15 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
244 bridges in Allegany County: 90 in good condition, 141 fair, and 13 poor (5.3%). “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.
| MD 144 over EVITTS CREEK · built 1966 | 7,221 vehicles a day |
| MD 51 over TOWN CREEK · built 1932 | 2,022 vehicles a day |
| MD 36 over JENNINGS RUN · built 1987 | 1,320 vehicles a day |
| MD 144 over TOWN CREEK · built 1957 | 1,121 vehicles a day |
| GRABENSTEIN ROAD over ELK LICK RUN · built 1940 | 1,075 vehicles a day |
| GREEN SPRING ROAD over NORTH BRANCH OF POTOMAC · built 1937 | 959 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $29.4 million of work in Allegany County in fiscal 2025, about $432 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 Maryland 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 Allegany 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 Allegany County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Mineral County, WV (20 mi) · Hampshire County, WV (21 mi) · Morgan County, WV (24 mi) · Bedford County, PA (29 mi) · Garrett County (31 mi) · Somerset County, PA (31 mi).