184,625 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.1% since 2020)
421 square miles of land · 438 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.
14 active community water systems list Medina County in the area they serve, reporting 108,325 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MEDINA CO/NORTHWEST PWS buys surface water · local government · OH5201903 | 46,324 served |
| MEDINA CITY PWS buys surface water · local government · OH5200514 | 25,956 served |
| WADSWORTH CITY PWS groundwater · local government · OH5201712 | 24,356 served |
| MEDINA CO/SOUTHERN WATER DIST PWS groundwater · local government · OH5260712 | 4,708 served |
| LODI VILLAGE PWS groundwater · local government · OH5200412 | 2,884 served |
| SEVILLE VILLAGE PWS groundwater · local government · OH5201412 | 2,296 served |
| SPENCER, VILLAGE OF buys surface water · local government · OH5201611 | 800 served |
| MEDINA CO/SHARON-WADSWORTH PWS buys groundwater · private · OH5202003 | 566 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 212 people were held in Medina County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 184 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 261.
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.
7 school districts have their office in Medina County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $93.2 million — $82 million to run schools, about $13,142 per student, plus $5.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $63.1 million local (mostly property tax), $34 million state, $7.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $56.6 million.
Spent $101.3 million — $93.3 million to run schools, about $15,116 per student, plus $4.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $69.5 million local (mostly property tax), $24.9 million state, $5.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $34 million.
Spent $66.7 million — $58.6 million to run schools, about $13,131 per student, plus $4.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $46 million local (mostly property tax), $22.8 million state, $5.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $93.9 million.
Spent $45.8 million — $40.3 million to run schools, about $11,966 per student, plus $2.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $38.4 million local (mostly property tax), $9.5 million state, $3.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $70.4 million.
Spent $66 million — $35.1 million to run schools, about $15,570 per student, plus $27.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $33.9 million local (mostly property tax), $11.3 million state, $3.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $61.1 million.
Spent $28.1 million — $25.7 million to run schools, about $11,491 per student, plus $1.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $24.5 million local (mostly property tax), $8.3 million state, $2.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $6 million.
Spent $26 million — $19.3 million to run schools, about $24,709 per student, plus $6.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $14.2 million local (mostly property tax), $9.6 million state, $663,000 federal.
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 Medina County about $35 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.
252 bridges in Medina County: 152 in good condition, 93 fair, and 7 poor (2.8%). “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.
| S. HUNTINGTON ST over CHAMPION CRK(HUNTINGTON) · built 1975 | 6,614 vehicles a day |
| USR 42 over CAMEL CREEK · built 1982 | 4,170 vehicles a day |
| RD 97 - GREENWICH over STREAM · built 2002 | 2,178 vehicles a day |
| RD 50 - CHIPPEWA over MCCABE CREEK · built 1990 | 904 vehicles a day |
| RD 4 - SMITH RD over EAST BRANCH BLACK RIVER · built 1924 | 693 vehicles a day |
| RD 145 - WALL RD over RIVER STYX · built 1972 | 542 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $44.2 million of work in Medina County in fiscal 2025, about $242 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 Medina 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 Medina County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Summit County (19 mi) · Wayne County (20 mi) · Lorain County (27 mi) · Ashland County (27 mi) · Cuyahoga County (34 mi) · Stark County (35 mi).