47,643 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.1% since 2020)
1,012 square miles of land · 47 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.
25 active community water systems list Bedford County in the area they serve, reporting 18,807 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MUN AUTH OF BORO OF BEDFORD surface water · local government · PA4050002 | 5,127 served |
| EVERETT BORO MUNI AUTH groundwater · local government · PA4050012 | 2,048 served |
| WATERSIDE LOYSBURG WATER SUPPL groundwater · local government · PA4050035 | 1,724 served |
| SAXTON MUNI WATER AUTH surface water · local government · PA4050021 | 1,675 served |
| BEDFORD TWP MUNI AUTH groundwater · local government · PA4050037 | 1,626 served |
| HYNDMAN BORO WATER DEPT surface water · local government · PA4050003 | 910 served |
| FISHERTOWN WATER ASSN groundwater · private · PA4050029 | 801 served |
| SNAKE SPRING TOWNSHIP MA groundwater · local government · PA4050038 | 750 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 125 people were held in Bedford County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 444 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 169.
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.
5 school districts have their office in Bedford County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $35.3 million — $31.1 million to run schools, about $18,250 per student, plus $856,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $17.9 million local (mostly property tax), $15.9 million state, $4.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $15.1 million.
Spent $23.3 million — $22.4 million to run schools, about $18,083 per student, plus $319,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8.2 million local (mostly property tax), $15.6 million state, $1.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $7.2 million.
Spent $22.5 million — $19.6 million to run schools, about $16,820 per student, plus $191,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $10.4 million local (mostly property tax), $13 million state, $3.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $25 million.
Spent $18.7 million — $17.6 million to run schools, about $18,560 per student, plus $160,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.5 million local (mostly property tax), $13.5 million state, $1.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $15.2 million.
Spent $16.9 million — $14.7 million to run schools, about $16,621 per student, plus $1.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.5 million local (mostly property tax), $10.1 million state, $2.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $6.4 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 Bedford County about $24.2 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
418 bridges in Bedford County: 129 in good condition, 253 fair, and 36 poor (8.6%). “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.
| PA TPK (I-70&I-76) over SR 2019(LR 05036) · built 1939 | 36,252 vehicles a day |
| PA TPK (I-76) over SR 1004 (LR 05039) · built 1939 | 36,252 vehicles a day |
| TPK RAMP AB I-70 over PA TPK (I-76) · built 1969 | 13,591 vehicles a day |
| US 220 over TR.EVITTS CREEK · built 1926 | 6,158 vehicles a day |
| PA 56 over GORDONS CREEK · built 1925 | 3,757 vehicles a day |
| PA 31 & PA 96 over BUFFALO RUN · built 1933 | 2,101 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $25.2 million of work in Bedford County in fiscal 2025, about $530 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 Pennsylvania 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 Bedford 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 Bedford County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Fulton County (21 mi) · Somerset County (28 mi) · Allegany County, MD (29 mi) · Morgan County, WV (33 mi) · Blair County (36 mi) · Cambria County (37 mi).