53,688 people (2024 Census estimate, +7.3% since 2020)
372 square miles of land · 144 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.
16 active community water systems list Queen Anne's County in the area they serve, reporting 18,339 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| STEVENSVILLE groundwater · local government · MD0170019 | 9,155 served |
| TOWN OF CENTREVILLE groundwater · local government · MD0170001 | 3,322 served |
| BAYSIDE-QUEENSLANDING groundwater · local government · MD0170007 | 1,030 served |
| PROSPECT BAY groundwater · local government · MD0170009 | 913 served |
| TOWN OF QUEENSTOWN groundwater · local government · MD0170003 | 705 served |
| OYSTER COVE groundwater · local government · MD0170011 | 600 served |
| BRIDGE POINTE-KENT ISLAND VILLAGE groundwater · local government · MD0170017 | 600 served |
| GRASONVILLE groundwater · local government · MD0170020 | 600 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 61 people were held in Queen Anne's County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 188 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 101.
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 Queen Anne's County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $138.1 million — $129.6 million to run schools, about $17,540 per student, plus $4.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $75.9 million local (mostly property tax), $50.7 million state, $13.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $12.9 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 Queen Anne's County about $12.7 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.
88 bridges in Queen Anne's County: 19 in good condition, 67 fair, and 2 poor (2.3%). “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.
| HIGH BRIDGE ROAD over TOWNSEND/CENTREVILLE RR · built 1914 | 500 vehicles a day |
| TAYLOR MILL ROAD over OLD MILL STREAM BRANCH · built 1955 | 100 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $8 million of work in Queen Anne's County in fiscal 2025, about $161 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 Queen Anne'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 Queen Anne's County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Kent County (14 mi) · Caroline County (18 mi) · Talbot County (21 mi) · Anne Arundel County (26 mi) · Kent County, DE (31 mi) · Baltimore city (33 mi).