14,269 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.1% since 2020)
398 square miles of land · 36 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 Noble County in the area they serve, reporting 11,421 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CALDWELL VILLAGE PWS surface water · local government · OH6100011 | 3,300 served |
| CLEAR WATER CORPORATION buys surface water · private · OH6100103 | 2,670 served |
| NOBLE COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY PWS buys surface water · private · OH6100503 | 2,368 served |
| PURE WATER CORPORATION buys surface water · private · OH6100303 | 1,989 served |
| NOBLE WATER COMPANY buys surface water · private · OH6100203 | 815 served |
| PURE WATER SYSTEM 2 PWS buys surface water · private · OH6100403 | 279 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 35 people were held in Noble County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 454 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 27.
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.
2 school districts have their office in Noble County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $23 million — $18.2 million to run schools, about $18,716 per student, plus $4.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $17.9 million local (mostly property tax), $6.8 million state, $2.8 million federal.
Spent $16.5 million — $14.2 million to run schools, about $20,142 per student, plus $1.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.3 million local (mostly property tax), $6.3 million state, $2.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $64,000.
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 Noble County about $4.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
208 bridges in Noble County: 87 in good condition, 103 fair, and 18 poor (8.7%). “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 821 over JOHNNY WOODS RIVER · built 1930 | 1,152 vehicles a day |
| SR 147 over WHISKEY RUN · built 1948 | 1,022 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD 6 over EAST FORK · built 1900 | 385 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD 15 over STREAM · built 1942 | 261 vehicles a day |
| TR103 over BUFFALO CREEK · built 1994 | 209 vehicles a day |
| TOWNSHIP ROAD 119 over NORTH FORK BUFFALO CREEK · built 2000 | 209 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $1.5 million of work in Noble County in fiscal 2025, about $107 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 Noble 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 Noble County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Monroe County (19 mi) · Guernsey County (20 mi) · Washington County (22 mi) · Morgan County (24 mi) · Muskingum County (29 mi) · Belmont County (31 mi).