45,776 people (2024 Census estimate, −2.8% since 2020)
893 square miles of land · 51 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.
29 active community water systems list Chenango County in the area they serve, reporting 21,175 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| NORWICH CITY surface water · local government · NY0801745 | 8,000 served |
| GREENE VILLAGE groundwater · local government · NY0801740 | 1,800 served |
| OXFORD VILLAGE groundwater · local government · NY0801746 | 1,738 served |
| BAINBRIDGE VILLAGE groundwater · local government · NY0801739 | 1,550 served |
| SHERBURNE VILLAGE groundwater · local government · NY0801747 | 1,531 served |
| NEW BERLIN VILLAGE groundwater · local government · NY0801744 | 1,500 served |
| AFTON VILLAGE groundwater · local government · NY0801738 | 838 served |
| NEW YORK STATE VETERANS HOME groundwater · state · NY0800628 | 504 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 109 people were held in Chenango County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 92.
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.
8 school districts have their office in Chenango County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $50.1 million — $39.1 million to run schools, about $22,809 per student, plus $9.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $12.2 million local (mostly property tax), $34.3 million state, $4.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $7.8 million.
Spent $38.1 million — $36.2 million to run schools, about $27,938 per student, plus $759,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.6 million local (mostly property tax), $28.3 million state, $4.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $14 million.
Spent $30.4 million — $27.4 million to run schools, about $29,091 per student, plus $955,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8 million local (mostly property tax), $21.8 million state, $4.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $13.1 million.
Spent $23.3 million — $20.7 million to run schools, about $25,838 per student, plus $934,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.3 million local (mostly property tax), $18 million state, $2.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $15.4 million.
Spent $26.2 million — $19.7 million to run schools, about $24,830 per student, plus $1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.1 million local (mostly property tax), $14.7 million state, $2.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $11.5 million.
Spent $25.3 million — $20.4 million to run schools, about $27,505 per student, plus $2.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.7 million local (mostly property tax), $16 million state, $3.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $7.6 million.
Spent $24.8 million — $16.8 million to run schools, about $33,994 per student, plus $6.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.4 million local (mostly property tax), $13.2 million state, $2.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $5 million.
Spent $12.8 million — $10.6 million to run schools, about $33,546 per student, plus $1.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.5 million local (mostly property tax), $7.1 million state, $793,000 federal. Long-term debt: $10.1 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 Chenango County about $27 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
256 bridges in Chenango County: 69 in good condition, 171 fair, and 16 poor (6.3%). “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.
| RTE I88 over TRB CORNELL CREEK · built 1974 | 10,908 vehicles a day |
| RTE I88 over UNNAMED CREEK UNNAMED C · built 1974 | 9,331 vehicles a day |
| RTE 12 over COLD BROOK · built 1955 | 8,046 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD 10 over FLY MEADOW CREEK · built 1995 | 1,037 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD 32 over GLEN ROAD BROOK · built 1938 | 941 vehicles a day |
| RTE 26 over TRIB OTSELIC CRK · built 1955 | 920 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $43.5 million of work in Chenango County in fiscal 2025, about $921 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 New York 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 Chenango 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 Chenango County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Broome County (25 mi) · Cortland County (25 mi) · Madison County (30 mi) · Otsego County (31 mi) · Delaware County (38 mi) · Tioga County (41 mi).