966,629 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.1% since 2020)
483 square miles of land · 2,003 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 Prince George's County in the area they serve, reporting 26,410 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CITY OF BOWIE groundwater · local government · MD0160002 | 25,000 served |
| CEDARVILLE MOBILE HOME PARK groundwater · private · MD0160207 | 780 served |
| CHELTENHAM BOYS VILLAGE groundwater · state · MD0160003 | 330 served |
| CALVERT MANOR groundwater · private · MD0160004 | 300 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 1,015 people were held in Prince George's County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 162 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 887.
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 Prince George's County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $2.9 billion — $2.6 billion to run schools, about $19,789 per student, plus $243.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.1 billion local (mostly property tax), $1.5 billion state, $334.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $630.3 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 Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Prince George's County about $121.8 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.
576 bridges in Prince George's County: 213 in good condition, 345 fair, and 18 poor (3.1%). “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 4 WBR over MD 717 · built 1959 | 46,652 vehicles a day |
| OXON HILL ROAD over BROAD CREEK · built 1963 | 30,739 vehicles a day |
| CHERRY HILL ROAD over LITTLE PAINT BRANCH · built 1966 | 22,938 vehicles a day |
| HARRY S TRUMAN DRI over SOUTHWEST BRANCH · built 1974 | 16,141 vehicles a day |
| TEMPLE HILL ROAD over TINKERS CREEK · built 1960 | 13,216 vehicles a day |
| NASA ACCESS ROAD over BALTIMORE-WASHINGTON PAR · built 1966 | 10,000 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $632.3 million of work in Prince George's County in fiscal 2025, about $654 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 Prince George's 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 Prince George's County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: District of Columbia, DC (10 mi) · Alexandria city, VA (13 mi) · Arlington County, VA (14 mi) · Falls Church city, VA (18 mi) · Anne Arundel County (19 mi) · Fairfax County, VA (23 mi).