21,491 people (2024 Census estimate, −3.0% since 2020)
430 square miles of land · 50 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 Meigs County in the area they serve, reporting 28,497 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| TUPPERS PLAINS/CHESTER WATER DISTRICT groundwater · private · OH5300612 | 16,087 served |
| LEADING CREEK CONSERVANCY DISTRICT groundwater · private · OH5300012 | 6,663 served |
| MIDDLEPORT VILLAGE PWS groundwater · local government · OH5300112 | 2,446 served |
| POMEROY VILLAGE PWS groundwater · local government · OH5300212 | 1,800 served |
| SYRACUSE VILLAGE PWS groundwater · local government · OH5300512 | 826 served |
| RACINE VILLAGE PWS groundwater · local government · OH5300312 | 675 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 36 people were held in Meigs County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 263 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.
3 school districts have their office in Meigs County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $29.7 million — $27.7 million to run schools, about $16,610 per student, plus $1.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.7 million local (mostly property tax), $18.1 million state, $4.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $470,000.
Spent $12.2 million — $10.9 million to run schools, about $15,059 per student, plus $764,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.9 million local (mostly property tax), $7.3 million state, $1.3 million federal.
Spent $11.5 million — $10.4 million to run schools, about $15,246 per student, plus $488,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.1 million local (mostly property tax), $6.9 million state, $1.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $3.2 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 Meigs County about $11.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
207 bridges in Meigs County: 95 in good condition, 107 fair, and 5 poor (2.4%). “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.
| C1 SALEM SCHOOL LT over SISSON RUN · built 1961 | 319 vehicles a day |
| C352 PAULINS HILL over LEADING CREEK · built 1956 | 276 vehicles a day |
| TR 29 WELLS RUN over WELLS RUN · built 1935 | 209 vehicles a day |
| T135 SELLERS RIDGE over GROUNDHOG CREEK · built 1950 | 21 vehicles a day |
| TR 655 SNOWDEN over THOMAS FORK · built 1961 | 15 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $24.7 million of work in Meigs County in fiscal 2025, about $1,111 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 Meigs 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 Meigs County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Athens County (17 mi) · Mason County, WV (22 mi) · Gallia County (24 mi) · Jackson County, WV (26 mi) · Vinton County (27 mi) · Wood County, WV (29 mi).