18,755 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.3% since 2020)
416 square miles of land · 45 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 Paulding County in the area they serve, reporting 7,711 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| PAULDING VILLAGE PWS surface water · local government · OH6300411 | 3,605 served |
| ANTWERP VILLAGE PWS groundwater · local government · OH6300012 | 1,741 served |
| PAYNE VILLAGE PWS groundwater · local government · OH6300712 | 1,550 served |
| OAKWOOD VILLAGE PWS groundwater · local government · OH6300312 | 727 served |
| BRENTWOOD COMMUNITY MHP LLC groundwater · private · OH6300212 | 48 served |
| COUNTRY INN ENHANCED LIVING CENTER groundwater · private · OH6333512 | 40 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 18 people were held in Paulding County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 158 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 28.
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 Paulding County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $20.9 million — $20.2 million to run schools, about $14,970 per student, plus $343,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $9.9 million local (mostly property tax), $9.3 million state, $3.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $597,000.
Spent $16.9 million — $15.6 million to run schools, about $17,566 per student, plus $985,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $10.4 million local (mostly property tax), $6.1 million state, $1.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.4 million.
Spent $10.7 million — $10.1 million to run schools, about $15,082 per student, plus $451,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5 million local (mostly property tax), $6 million state, $749,000 federal. Long-term debt: $10,000.
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 Paulding County about $8.3 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
177 bridges in Paulding County: 121 in good condition, 45 fair, and 11 poor (6.2%). “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.
| TOWNSHIP ROAD 21 over SOUTH CREEK · built 1940 | 659 vehicles a day |
| TOWNSHIP ROAD 33 over FLAT ROCK CREEK · built 1980 | 351 vehicles a day |
| TOWNSHIP ROAD 24 over PRAIRIE CREEK · built 1900 | 324 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD 177 over MIDDLE CREEK · built 1977 | 300 vehicles a day |
| TOWNSHIP ROAD 8 over TUSTISON CREEK · built 1971 | 179 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD 151 over MIDDLE CREEK · built 1979 | 120 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $2.6 million of work in Paulding County in fiscal 2025, about $138 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 Paulding 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 Paulding County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Defiance County (15 mi) · Van Wert County (18 mi) · Putnam County (24 mi) · Allen County, IN (26 mi) · DeKalb County, IN (29 mi) · Henry County (30 mi).