33,483 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.9% since 2020)
765 square miles of land · 44 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.
12 active community water systems list Monroe County in the area they serve, reporting 40,763 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CITY OF AMORY groundwater · local government · MS0480002 | 9,350 served |
| TOWN OF ABERDEEN groundwater · local government · MS0480001 | 7,783 served |
| CASON WATER ASSOCIATION buys surface water · public/private · MS0480019 | 4,570 served |
| HAMILTON WATER DISTRICT groundwater · public/private · MS0480007 | 4,029 served |
| QUINCY WATER ASSOCIATION #1 groundwater · public/private · MS0480011 | 3,519 served |
| WREN W/A groundwater · public/private · MS0480013 | 3,068 served |
| TOWN OF SMITHVILLE groundwater · local government · MS0480012 | 2,062 served |
| TOWN OF HATLEY groundwater · local government · MS0480008 | 1,962 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 48 people were held in Monroe County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 226 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 125.
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.
3 school districts have their office in Monroe County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $26.1 million — $23 million to run schools, about $10,849 per student, plus $3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.4 million local (mostly property tax), $14.9 million state, $5.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.9 million.
Spent $20.1 million — $17.6 million to run schools, about $11,627 per student, plus $2.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $10.9 million local (mostly property tax), $10.4 million state, $4.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.5 million.
Spent $17.5 million — $15.5 million to run schools, about $15,579 per student, plus $1.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.9 million local (mostly property tax), $6.7 million state, $4.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.6 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 Monroe County about $19.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
287 bridges in Monroe County: 187 in good condition, 92 fair, and 8 poor (2.8%). “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.
| HATLEY-SMITHVILLE over WEAVER CREEK · built 1954 | 1,808 vehicles a day |
| CALEDONIA HAML. RD over BUTTAHATCHIE RIVER · built 1980 | 701 vehicles a day |
| BIGBEE ROAD over UNNAMED LOCAL BRANCH · built 1971 | 378 vehicles a day |
| BUCK RD over TURTLE CREEK · built 1985 | 139 vehicles a day |
| OLD GOLF COURSE RD over UNNAMED SLOUGH · built 2003 | 125 vehicles a day |
| LOST CORNER ROAD over BOGUEFALA CK · built 1994 | 88 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $7.6 million of work in Monroe County in fiscal 2025, about $224 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 Mississippi 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 Monroe 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 Monroe County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Clay County (23 mi) · Lamar County, AL (24 mi) · Chickasaw County (27 mi) · Itawamba County (28 mi) · Lowndes County (29 mi) · Lee County (30 mi).