348,144 people (2024 Census estimate, +3.2% since 2020)
174 square miles of land · 2,004 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.
19 active community water systems list Rockland County in the area they serve, reporting 302,819 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| VEOLIA WATER NEW YORK surface water · private · NY4303673 | 270,000 served |
| NYACK VILLAGE WATER SUPPLY surface water · local government · NY4303666 | 14,700 served |
| SUFFERN VILLAGE groundwater · local government · NY4303675 | 12,000 served |
| BEAR MOUNTAIN WATER SUPPLY surface water · state · NY4317681 | 3,564 served |
| HILLBURN VILLAGE buys surface water · local government · NY4303664 | 950 served |
| HIGH-TOR PROPERTIES groundwater · private · NY4313899 | 300 served |
| MOUNT FUJI groundwater · private · NY4320531 | 282 served |
| MOUNTAINVIEW MOBILE HOME PARK groundwater · private · NY4301306 | 225 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 119 people were held in Rockland County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 90.
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 Rockland County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $355.7 million — $329.2 million to run schools, about $32,625 per student, plus $18.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $155.9 million local (mostly property tax), $123.9 million state, $113.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $50.9 million.
Spent $312 million — $236.7 million to run schools, about $30,002 per student, plus $8.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $148.5 million local (mostly property tax), $109.5 million state, $25.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $221.1 million.
Spent $238.8 million — $225 million to run schools, about $28,686 per student, plus $5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $178.6 million local (mostly property tax), $57.8 million state, $10.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $37.5 million.
Spent $154 million — $145.8 million to run schools, about $36,268 per student, plus $3.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $114.8 million local (mostly property tax), $36.1 million state, $6.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $6.2 million.
Spent $105.5 million — $98.1 million to run schools, about $33,995 per student, plus $4.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $88.2 million local (mostly property tax), $18.2 million state, $3.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $8.6 million.
Spent $93.7 million — $88.5 million to run schools, about $31,400 per student, plus $2.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $74.7 million local (mostly property tax), $21.6 million state, $5.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $12 million.
Spent $81.6 million — $77.4 million to run schools, about $33,417 per student, plus $2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $61.6 million local (mostly property tax), $19.4 million state, $4.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $18.7 million.
Spent $86.7 million — $72.1 million to run schools, about $32,516 per student, plus $11.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $61.9 million local (mostly property tax), $19.1 million state, $4 million federal. Long-term debt: $25.2 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 Rockland County about $60.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
248 bridges in Rockland County: 66 in good condition, 152 fair, and 30 poor (12.1%). “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.
| RTE I87 over RTE 59 NJ TRANSIT RR · built 1954 | 110,239 vehicles a day |
| RTE I87 over Route 59 RTE 59 · built 1953 | 107,699 vehicles a day |
| RTE I87 over RTE 303 · built 1953 | 107,699 vehicles a day |
| RTE I87 over RTE 45 · built 1953 | 89,004 vehicles a day |
| RTE I87 over SADDLE RV RD · built 1954 | 89,004 vehicles a day |
| RTE I87 over US Route 202 RTE 202 W · built 1953 | 81,424 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $115.7 million of work in Rockland County in fiscal 2025, about $342 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 Rockland 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 Rockland County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
More of New York: the state government and every county in New York.
Nearby counties: Bergen County, NJ (14 mi) · Westchester County (14 mi) · Passaic County, NJ (16 mi) · Orange County (23 mi) · Bronx County (23 mi) · Putnam County (24 mi).