62,158 people (2024 Census estimate, +6.0% since 2020)
501 square miles of land · 124 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.
20 active community water systems list Pickaway County in the area they serve, reporting 42,079 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CIRCLEVILLE CITY PWS groundwater · local government · OH6500412 | 13,927 served |
| EARNHART HILL WATER DISTRICT PWS groundwater · private · OH6500812 | 10,738 served |
| ASHVILLE VILLAGE PWS groundwater · local government · OH6500012 | 4,529 served |
| COMMERCIAL POINT VILLAGE groundwater · local government · OH6503512 | 3,497 served |
| ODRC-PICKAWAY CORRECTION PWS groundwater · state · OH6501712 | 3,376 served |
| SOUTH BLOOMFIELD VILLAGE PWS groundwater · local government · OH6502112 | 1,999 served |
| WILLIAMSPORT VILLAGE PWS groundwater · local government · OH6503012 | 1,038 served |
| NEW HOLLAND VILLAGE PWS groundwater · local government · OH6501612 | 830 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 96 people were held in Pickaway County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 238 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 117.
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.
4 school districts have their office in Pickaway County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $58.2 million — $55.7 million to run schools, about $12,752 per student, plus $1.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $34.6 million local (mostly property tax), $24.8 million state, $4.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $20.9 million.
Spent $34.6 million — $30.9 million to run schools, about $14,251 per student, plus $1.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $18.9 million local (mostly property tax), $14.8 million state, $7.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $42.4 million.
Spent $58.8 million — $25 million to run schools, about $14,742 per student, plus $32 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $17.6 million local (mostly property tax), $17.4 million state, $3.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $42.6 million.
Spent $45.3 million — $39.7 million to run schools, about $28,132 per student, plus $4.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11.4 million local (mostly property tax), $9.3 million state, $2.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $14.2 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 Pickaway County about $18.4 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.
223 bridges in Pickaway County: 139 in good condition, 77 fair, and 7 poor (3.1%). “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.
| I-71 over OPOSSUM RUN · built 1964 | 20,873 vehicles a day |
| SR 159 over SALT CREEK · built 1932 | 2,649 vehicles a day |
| SR 138 over YELLOWBUD CREEK · built 1958 | 946 vehicles a day |
| BULEN-PIERCE ROAD over RATHMEL DITCH · built 1900 | 429 vehicles a day |
| PLAZIER ROAD over BRANCH OF LITTLE WALNUT · built 1993 | 351 vehicles a day |
| RECTOR ROAD over YELLOW BUD CREEK · built 1940 | 324 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $26.1 million of work in Pickaway County in fiscal 2025, about $446 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 Pickaway 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 Pickaway County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Franklin County (22 mi) · Ross County (22 mi) · Fayette County (23 mi) · Fairfield County (24 mi) · Madison County (25 mi) · Hocking County (32 mi).