27,429 people (2024 Census estimate, −2.2% since 2020)
421 square miles of land · 65 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 Hocking County in the area they serve, reporting 9,077 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| LOGAN, CITY OF groundwater · local government · OH3700612 | 6,704 served |
| CARBON HILL WATER ASSOCIATION buys groundwater · local government · OH3700103 | 910 served |
| LAURELVILLE, VLG OF groundwater · local government · OH3700512 | 586 served |
| MURRAY CITY VILLAGE PWS buys groundwater · local government · OH3700803 | 449 served |
| OLD STRAITSVILLE-ROCKBRIDGE buys groundwater · local government · OH3740512 | 361 served |
| PONDEROSA ESTATES PWS groundwater · private · OH3700312 | 35 served |
| SCENIC HILLS ESTATES groundwater · private · OH3700912 | 32 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 34 people were held in Hocking County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 199 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 40.
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.
1 school district has its office in Hocking County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $60.3 million — $54.6 million to run schools, about $15,438 per student, plus $3.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $25.3 million local (mostly property tax), $25.1 million state, $9.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $7.8 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 Hocking County about $14.1 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
295 bridges in Hocking County: 224 in good condition, 69 fair, and 2 poor (0.7%). “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.
| SR 93 over C&O RAILROAD · built 1969 | 12,367 vehicles a day |
| SR 56 over COONROD CREEK · built 1930 | 1,012 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $13.7 million of work in Hocking County in fiscal 2025, about $488 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 Hocking 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 Hocking County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Vinton County (16 mi) · Fairfield County (19 mi) · Perry County (22 mi) · Athens County (26 mi) · Pickaway County (32 mi) · Ross County (33 mi).