28,782 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.7% since 2020)
406 square miles of land · 71 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.
7 active community water systems list Fayette County in the area they serve, reporting 24,724 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| WASHINGTON COURT HOUSE PWS surface water · private · OH2400714 | 14,100 served |
| RATTLESNAKE PWS surface water · private · OH2437412 | 7,685 served |
| JEFFERSONVILLE VILLAGE PWS groundwater · local government · OH2400612 | 1,356 served |
| VILLAGE OF BLOOMINGBURG groundwater · local government · OH2400012 | 878 served |
| FAYETTE CO.-CULPEPPER SUBDIVISION buys surface water · local government · OH2400112 | 450 served |
| FAYETTE CO-LAKEWOOD HILLS SUBDIVISION buys surface water · local government · OH2438714 | 200 served |
| RANCH OF OPPORTUNITY PWS groundwater · private · OH2400912 | 55 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 110 people were held in Fayette County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 609 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 63.
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.
2 school districts have their office in Fayette County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $37.6 million — $34.8 million to run schools, about $13,512 per student, plus $809,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $21.8 million local (mostly property tax), $14.4 million state, $4.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $75.6 million.
Spent $36 million — $27.7 million to run schools, about $13,682 per student, plus $7.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11.4 million local (mostly property tax), $18 million state, $7.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $11.6 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Fayette County about $9.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
240 bridges in Fayette County: 143 in good condition, 92 fair, and 5 poor (2.1%). “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.
| USR 35 over PAINT CREEK & CR 58 · built 1973 | 6,361 vehicles a day |
| SR 753 over INDIAN CREEK · built 1962 | 2,577 vehicles a day |
| SR 41 over BUCK RUN · built 1982 | 2,383 vehicles a day |
| MATHEWS RD-CR 119 over E.F.PAINT CK-MATHEWS ROA · built 1980 | 415 vehicles a day |
| CREAMER RD C0089 over CREAMER RD - SUGAR CR · built 1997 | 385 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $8.5 million of work in Fayette County in fiscal 2025, about $294 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 Ohio 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 Fayette 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 Fayette County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Clinton County (21 mi) · Pickaway County (23 mi) · Madison County (24 mi) · Greene County (25 mi) · Highland County (27 mi) · Ross County (27 mi).