92,048 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.2% since 2020)
568 square miles of land · 162 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.
14 active community water systems list Tuscarawas County in the area they serve, reporting 62,233 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| NEW PHILADELPHIA CITY PWS groundwater · local government · OH7900812 | 17,410 served |
| DOVER CITY PWS groundwater · local government · OH7900412 | 13,253 served |
| TWIN CITY WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT PWS groundwater · local government · OH7901711 | 9,224 served |
| TCMSD-WILKSHIRE HILLS PWS groundwater · private · OH7901612 | 6,587 served |
| NEWCOMERSTOWN VILLAGE PWS groundwater · local government · OH7900912 | 3,882 served |
| STRASBURG VILLAGE PWS groundwater · local government · OH7901212 | 2,610 served |
| SUGARCREEK VILLAGE PWS groundwater · local government · OH7901312 | 2,220 served |
| AQUA OHIO - MIDVALE groundwater · local government · OH7900612 | 2,147 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 107 people were held in Tuscarawas County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 193 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 112.
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.
10 school districts have their office in Tuscarawas County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $42.9 million — $36.5 million to run schools, about $12,740 per student, plus $5.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $20.1 million local (mostly property tax), $15.4 million state, $5.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $270,000.
Spent $30.2 million — $27.9 million to run schools, about $10,415 per student, plus $720,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $17.9 million local (mostly property tax), $12.5 million state, $3.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $22.5 million.
Spent $25 million — $22.7 million to run schools, about $13,286 per student, plus $1.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $10.7 million local (mostly property tax), $14.7 million state, $3.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $11.7 million.
Spent $28.2 million — $25.9 million to run schools, about $15,879 per student, plus $1.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7 million local (mostly property tax), $16.8 million state, $5 million federal. Long-term debt: $7 million.
Spent $41.1 million — $16.3 million to run schools, about $12,832 per student, plus $23.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $13.9 million local (mostly property tax), $14.8 million state, $2.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $26.2 million.
Spent $23.9 million — $21.4 million to run schools, about $16,894 per student, plus $628,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.9 million local (mostly property tax), $11.7 million state, $3.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $7.2 million.
Spent $16.2 million — $14.6 million to run schools, about $13,471 per student, plus $1.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $10.3 million local (mostly property tax), $6.1 million state, $2.3 million federal.
Spent $16.7 million — $14.6 million to run schools, about $16,506 per student, plus $1.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.4 million local (mostly property tax), $8.9 million state, $2.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.2 million.
And 2 more.
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 Tuscarawas County about $21.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
337 bridges in Tuscarawas County: 218 in good condition, 110 fair, and 9 poor (2.7%). “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.
| US 250 over BR LITTLE STILLWATER CR · built 1985 | 9,264 vehicles a day |
| SR 800 over TUSCARAWAS RIVER · built 1978 | 3,705 vehicles a day |
| SR 212 over CONOTTON CREEK · built 1948 | 2,731 vehicles a day |
| SR 800 over WEAVERS RUN · built 1983 | 2,334 vehicles a day |
| SR 800 over STILLWATER CREEK · built 1983 | 2,334 vehicles a day |
| 1ST ST & DENN CORP over LITTLE STILLWATER CREEK · built 1941 | 1,957 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $19.3 million of work in Tuscarawas County in fiscal 2025, about $207 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 Tuscarawas 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 Tuscarawas County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Carroll County (22 mi) · Harrison County (23 mi) · Holmes County (25 mi) · Stark County (26 mi) · Coshocton County (26 mi) · Guernsey County (27 mi).