13,532 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.6% since 2020)
416 square miles of land · 32 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.
8 active community water systems list Morgan County in the area they serve, reporting 5,135 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MCCONNELSVILLE VILLAGE buys groundwater · local government · OH5800512 | 1,780 served |
| CHESTERHILL VILLAGE PWS groundwater · local government · OH5800112 | 823 served |
| MORGAN MEIGSVILLE RURAL buys groundwater · private · OH5801003 | 700 served |
| MALTA VILLAGE PWS groundwater · local government · OH5800412 | 671 served |
| MORGAN MEIGSVILLE - WEST MALTA PWS buys groundwater · local government · OH5801103 | 520 served |
| STOCKPORT VILLAGE PWS groundwater · local government · OH5800912 | 503 served |
| WOODLAND HILLS ESTATES II groundwater · private · OH5800712 | 70 served |
| MORGAN MEIGSVILLE - SR 376 PWS buys groundwater · private · OH5801203 | 68 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 17 people were held in Morgan County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 199 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 20.
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 Morgan County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $37.2 million — $29.4 million to run schools, about $17,642 per student, plus $7.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11.4 million local (mostly property tax), $16 million state, $8 million federal. Long-term debt: $2.9 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 Morgan County about $6.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
159 bridges in Morgan County: 80 in good condition, 72 fair, and 7 poor (4.4%). “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.
| COUNTY ROAD 203 over MUSKINGUM RIVER · built 1913 | 8,919 vehicles a day |
| SR 376 over STREAM · built 1952 | 1,443 vehicles a day |
| SR 555 over EAST BRANCH BLACK FORK · built 1961 | 543 vehicles a day |
| TOWNSHIP ROAD 249 over OLIVE GREEN CREEK · built 1903 | 209 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD 13 over WEST BRANCH WOLF CREEK · built 1952 | 209 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD 4 over TRIB SHARPS FORK FED CRK · built 1937 | 90 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $9 million of work in Morgan County in fiscal 2025, about $653 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 Morgan 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 Morgan County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Perry County (22 mi) · Athens County (22 mi) · Washington County (23 mi) · Noble County (24 mi) · Muskingum County (24 mi) · Wood County, WV (34 mi).