6,601 people (2024 Census estimate, −5.2% since 2020)
427 square miles of land · 15 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.
3 active community water systems list Forest County in the area they serve, reporting 5,380 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| AQUA PA JENKS TWP WTP groundwater · private · PA6270008 | 4,320 served |
| TIONESTA BOROUGH WATER SUPPLY groundwater · local government · PA6270001 | 610 served |
| WEST HICKORY WATER COMPANY groundwater · private · PA6270002 | 450 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 16 people were held in Forest County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 346 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 21.
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.
1 school district has its office in Forest County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $18.6 million — $12.9 million to run schools, about $35,471 per student, plus $4.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.1 million local (mostly property tax), $6.2 million state, $2.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $11.4 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Forest County about $5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
72 bridges in Forest County: 25 in good condition, 37 fair, and 10 poor (13.9%). “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 62 over OVER PRATHER RUN · built 1926 | 1,581 vehicles a day |
| SR 36 COL.DRAKE HY over OVER HUNTER RUN · built 1959 | 1,381 vehicles a day |
| SR 3004 NEBRASKA over OVER TIONESTA DAM CREEK · built 1933 | 284 vehicles a day |
| ELM STREET over OVER TIONESTA CREEK · built 1919 | 275 vehicles a day |
| SR 666 D ZEIS HWY over OVER UPPER SHERIFF RUN · built 1983 | 139 vehicles a day |
| SR 2002 FOREST RD over OVER COLEMAN RUN · built 1934 | 100 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $2.9 million of work in Forest County in fiscal 2025, about $413 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 Forest 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 Forest County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Warren County (22 mi) · Clarion County (23 mi) · Venango County (28 mi) · Jefferson County (29 mi) · Elk County (31 mi) · McKean County (41 mi).