47,574 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.6% since 2020)
519 square miles of land · 92 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.
33 active community water systems list Tioga County in the area they serve, reporting 24,628 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| VEOLIA OF OWEGO groundwater · private · NY5304409 | 4,850 served |
| WAVERLY VILLAGE groundwater · local government · NY5304410 | 4,830 served |
| OWEGO WD #4 groundwater · local government · NY5305670 | 3,196 served |
| OWEGO WD #2 groundwater · local government · NY5305672 | 2,754 served |
| OWEGO WD #3 groundwater · local government · NY5305671 | 2,150 served |
| VILLAGE OF NEWARK VALLEY groundwater · local government · NY5304407 | 896 served |
| CANDOR VILLAGE WATER DEPT. groundwater · local government · NY5304406 | 800 served |
| NICHOLS TOWN groundwater · local government · NY5300245 | 725 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 47 people were held in Tioga County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2026). In 2021 it was about 59.
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.
6 school districts have their office in Tioga County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $61.5 million — $49.2 million to run schools, about $25,098 per student, plus $10.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $26.8 million local (mostly property tax), $31.2 million state, $5.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $15.1 million.
Spent $37.2 million — $31.7 million to run schools, about $20,357 per student, plus $2.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8.5 million local (mostly property tax), $27.4 million state, $4.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $31.3 million.
Spent $32.6 million — $26.7 million to run schools, about $25,487 per student, plus $1.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.6 million local (mostly property tax), $19 million state, $2.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $10.6 million.
Spent $27.9 million — $19.9 million to run schools, about $21,987 per student, plus $5.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.3 million local (mostly property tax), $17.2 million state, $3.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $14.7 million.
Spent $34 million — $23.2 million to run schools, about $28,371 per student, plus $9.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8.1 million local (mostly property tax), $17.2 million state, $3 million federal. Long-term debt: $8.1 million.
Spent $21.3 million — $18.4 million to run schools, about $25,425 per student, plus $702,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.2 million local (mostly property tax), $14.5 million state, $2.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $15.1 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 Tioga County about $20 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
221 bridges in Tioga County: 65 in good condition, 135 fair, and 21 poor (9.5%). “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 17 over ITHACA CENTRAL RR · built 1973 | 8,583 vehicles a day |
| RTE 17 over ITHACA CENTRAL RR · built 1973 | 8,583 vehicles a day |
| KEYSTONE AVENUE over 17 17 65062010 RTE 17 · built 1973 | 4,411 vehicles a day |
| RTE 34 over KING HOLLOW CREEK · built 1937 | 4,319 vehicles a day |
| PROSPECT VALLEY RO over PROSPECT VALLEY CREEK · built 1980 | 368 vehicles a day |
| LONG CREEK ROAD over LONG CREEK · built 1978 | 301 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $11.9 million of work in Tioga County in fiscal 2025, about $245 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 Tioga 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 Tioga County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Tompkins County (21 mi) · Chemung County (23 mi) · Broome County (24 mi) · Bradford County, PA (29 mi) · Cortland County (31 mi) · Susquehanna County, PA (35 mi).