27,536 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.5% since 2020)
416 square miles of land · 66 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.
10 active community water systems list Henry County in the area they serve, reporting 15,008 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| NAPOLEON CITY surface water · local government · OH3500811 | 8,858 served |
| DESHLER VILLAGE groundwater · local government · OH3500112 | 1,578 served |
| LIBERTY CENTER VILLAGE buys surface water · local government · OH3500603 | 1,350 served |
| HOLGATE VILLAGE groundwater · local government · OH3500512 | 1,150 served |
| HAMLER VILLAGE groundwater · local government · OH3500312 | 580 served |
| FLORIDA VILLAGE buys surface water · local government · OH3501203 | 450 served |
| NORTHWESTERN W AND SD - CO RD P PWS buys surface water · local government · OH3539212 | 440 served |
| NORTHWESTERN W AND SD - SR 108 PWS buys surface water · local government · OH3539214 | 267 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 103 people were held in Henry County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 612 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 118.
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.
5 school districts have their office in Henry County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $29.1 million — $26.3 million to run schools, about $14,913 per student, plus $1.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $14.9 million local (mostly property tax), $10.2 million state, $2.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $26.9 million.
Spent $17.9 million — $16 million to run schools, about $16,052 per student, plus $1.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11.1 million local (mostly property tax), $7.9 million state, $743,000 federal. Long-term debt: $28.5 million.
Spent $20.9 million — $18.3 million to run schools, about $21,296 per student, plus $1.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $14.3 million local (mostly property tax), $9.9 million state, $932,000 federal. Long-term debt: $2.2 million.
Spent $16.4 million — $15.1 million to run schools, about $17,743 per student, plus $1.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $10.9 million local (mostly property tax), $6 million state, $1.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $26.6 million.
Spent $7.7 million — $7.3 million to run schools, about $18,213 per student, plus $293,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.6 million local (mostly property tax), $3.7 million state, $629,000 federal. Long-term debt: $2.4 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 Henry County about $13.4 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
264 bridges in Henry County: 157 in good condition, 91 fair, and 16 poor (6.1%). “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.
| Woodlawn Ave. over OBERHAUS CREEK DITCH 131 · built 1947 | 5,267 vehicles a day |
| Co. Rd. R over VAN HYNING CREEK · built 1970 | 2,132 vehicles a day |
| Glenwood Ave. over OBERHAUS CREEK · built 1960 | 1,436 vehicles a day |
| Co. Rd. 11 over DITCH 1558 S TURKEYFOOT · built 1976 | 797 vehicles a day |
| Co. Rd. V over DITCH 918 N TURKEYFOOT C · built 1958 | 562 vehicles a day |
| Co. Rd. S over DITCH 918 · built 1968 | 505 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $18.6 million of work in Henry County in fiscal 2025, about $672 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 Henry 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 Henry County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Fulton County (19 mi) · Putnam County (21 mi) · Defiance County (22 mi) · Wood County (23 mi) · Paulding County (30 mi) · Hancock County (31 mi).