2,617,631 people (2024 Census estimate, −3.6% since 2020)
69 square miles of land · 37,731 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.
1 active community water system list Kings County in the area they serve, reporting 8,271,000 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| NEW YORK CITY SYSTEM surface water · local government · NY7003493 | 8,271,000 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 1,969 people were held in Kings County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 117 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 3,887.
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.
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 High compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Kings County about $374.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
242 bridges in Kings County: 52 in good condition, 160 fair, and 30 poor (12.4%). “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 I278 over RTE I278 FURMAN STREET · built 1944 | 202,650 vehicles a day |
| RTE I278 over 15th Street 17th Street · built 1962 | 181,470 vehicles a day |
| RTE 907C over BAY PKWY · built 1941 | 159,871 vehicles a day |
| RTE I278 over 907C 907CX2M13001 907C · built 1963 | 147,365 vehicles a day |
| RTE I278 over RTE I278 JORALEMON ST · built 1948 | 143,724 vehicles a day |
| RTE I278 over RTE I278 BRKLYN PROMENA · built 1944 | 143,724 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $467.3 million of work in Kings County in fiscal 2025, about $171 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 Kings 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 Kings County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Queens County (6 mi) · Hudson County, NJ (9 mi) · New York County (10 mi) · Richmond County (11 mi) · Bronx County (16 mi) · Essex County, NJ (19 mi).