123,941 people (2024 Census estimate, −3.6% since 2020)
791 square miles of land · 157 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.
19 active community water systems list Fayette County in the area they serve, reporting 253,300 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MAWC YOUGH PLANT surface water · local government · PA5260036 | 133,000 served |
| NORTH FAYETTE CNTY MUNI AUTH surface water · local government · PA5260019 | 35,409 served |
| PA-AMERICAN WATER- UNIONTOWN buys surface water · private · PA5260020 | 23,125 served |
| PA-AMERICAN WATER CO-CONNELLSV buys surface water · private · PA5260022 | 11,425 served |
| MUNI AUTH OF WASHINGTON TWP surface water · local government · PA5260009 | 9,100 served |
| PA-AMERICAN WATER-BROWNSVILLE surface water · private · PA5260005 | 7,844 served |
| INDIAN CREEK VALLEY WATER AUTH surface water · local government · PA5260011 | 7,000 served |
| BELLE VERNON BORO MUNI AUTH buys surface water · local government · PA5260004 | 6,000 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 179 people were held in Fayette County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 235 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 207.
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.
6 school districts have their office in Fayette County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $80.8 million — $71.7 million to run schools, about $19,220 per student, plus $1.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $21.4 million local (mostly property tax), $57 million state, $11.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $97.3 million.
Spent $61.8 million — $53.9 million to run schools, about $17,693 per student, plus $2.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $15.3 million local (mostly property tax), $41.6 million state, $9.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $22.8 million.
Spent $62.2 million — $53.5 million to run schools, about $19,549 per student, plus $2.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $26 million local (mostly property tax), $30.3 million state, $7.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $52.5 million.
Spent $58.4 million — $51.7 million to run schools, about $20,551 per student, plus $117,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $19.4 million local (mostly property tax), $32.3 million state, $11.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $73.1 million.
Spent $33.3 million — $29.1 million to run schools, about $19,597 per student, plus $608,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.9 million local (mostly property tax), $23.3 million state, $5 million federal. Long-term debt: $37.8 million.
Spent $21.3 million — $18.8 million to run schools, about $18,662 per student, plus $457,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.6 million local (mostly property tax), $12.6 million state, $1.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $22.7 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 Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Fayette County about $37.1 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.
419 bridges in Fayette County: 172 in good condition, 175 fair, and 72 poor (17.2%). “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.
| SR 711 CRAWFORD AV over YOUGHIOGHENY SR1037 CSXT · built 1959 | 12,362 vehicles a day |
| N. GALLATIN AVE over REDSTONE CREEK · built 1953 | 11,880 vehicles a day |
| SR 4003 over DUNLAP CREEK · built 1839 | 6,661 vehicles a day |
| SR 4003 over ABANDONED CSXT R/R · built 1900 | 6,661 vehicles a day |
| OLIVER RD over REDSTONE CREEK · built 1960 | 5,600 vehicles a day |
| JEFFERSON STREET over REDSTONE CREEK · built 1971 | 4,700 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $89.7 million of work in Fayette County in fiscal 2025, about $697 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 Fayette 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 Fayette County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Westmoreland County (29 mi) · Monongalia County, WV (30 mi) · Preston County, WV (31 mi) · Greene County (31 mi) · Garrett County, MD (32 mi) · Somerset County (33 mi).