232,360 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.1% since 2020)
229 square miles of land · 1,013 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.
6 active community water systems list Lake County in the area they serve, reporting 228,741 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| LAKE COUNTY WEST WATER SUBDISTRICT surface water · local government · OH4302411 | 78,379 served |
| AQUA OHIO - MENTOR surface water · private · OH4301511 | 74,500 served |
| LAKE COUNTY EAST WATER SUBDISTRICT surface water · local government · OH4302911 | 40,656 served |
| PAINESVILLE CITY PWS surface water · local government · OH4301611 | 31,728 served |
| FAIRPORT HARBOR VILLAGE PWS buys surface water · local government · OH4300411 | 3,180 served |
| LAKE COUNTY PINECREST SUBDISTRICT buys surface water · local government · OH4303103 | 298 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 292 people were held in Lake County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 202 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 341.
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.
9 school districts have their office in Lake County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $125.7 million — $115.2 million to run schools, about $15,847 per student, plus $7.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $89.7 million local (mostly property tax), $25.2 million state, $8.1 million federal.
Spent $121 million — $107.8 million to run schools, about $14,981 per student, plus $1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $95.6 million local (mostly property tax), $27.4 million state, $10.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $181.6 million.
Spent $56.6 million — $53.4 million to run schools, about $12,555 per student, plus $1.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $45.7 million local (mostly property tax), $11.7 million state, $4.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $37.4 million.
Spent $37.2 million — $35.2 million to run schools, about $12,510 per student, plus $565,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $19.2 million local (mostly property tax), $16.6 million state, $2.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $7.9 million.
Spent $45.3 million — $42.9 million to run schools, about $16,063 per student, plus $1.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11.1 million local (mostly property tax), $31.6 million state, $8.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $20.7 million.
Spent $28.3 million — $26 million to run schools, about $17,288 per student, plus $1.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $13.5 million local (mostly property tax), $13.1 million state, $1.5 million federal.
Spent $51.3 million — $19.1 million to run schools, about $14,269 per student, plus $26.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $19.9 million local (mostly property tax), $5.5 million state, $3 million federal. Long-term debt: $54.5 million.
Spent $23.1 million — $16.5 million to run schools, about $14,660 per student, plus $5.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $15.7 million local (mostly property tax), $2.8 million state, $873,000 federal. Long-term debt: $4.5 million.
And 1 more.
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 Lake County about $41.9 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
211 bridges in Lake County: 115 in good condition, 80 fair, and 16 poor (7.6%). “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 2 over EAST 337TH ST · built 1962 | 34,896 vehicles a day |
| SR 91 over NSC CSX RR N. OF US 20 · built 1969 | 30,463 vehicles a day |
| SR 91 over LAKELAND BLVD · built 1969 | 30,463 vehicles a day |
| SR 283 over OVERFLOW FOR CHAGRIN RIV · built 1932 | 13,813 vehicles a day |
| SR 84 over SR-44 (JOHNNYCAKE RIDGE) · built 1960 | 11,058 vehicles a day |
| TYLER BLVD over NEWELL CREEK · built 1960 | 9,731 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $84.7 million of work in Lake County in fiscal 2025, about $364 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 Lake 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 Lake County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Geauga County (19 mi) · Ashtabula County (25 mi) · Cuyahoga County (26 mi) · Trumbull County (39 mi) · Portage County (42 mi) · Summit County (49 mi).