14,452 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.9% since 2020)
438 square miles of land · 33 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 Fulton County in the area they serve, reporting 2,371 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MCCONNELLSBURG BORO MUNI AUTH groundwater (surface-influenced) · local government · PA4290005 | 2,000 served |
| BELFAST TWP MUNI AUTH groundwater · private · PA4290004 | 276 served |
| WELLS TANNERY WATER SYS groundwater · private · PA4290003 | 95 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 22 people were held in Fulton County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 251 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 38.
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.
3 school districts have their office in Fulton County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $18.2 million — $16.7 million to run schools, about $17,972 per student, plus $90,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.3 million local (mostly property tax), $10.2 million state, $2.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $13.4 million.
Spent $19.5 million — $17 million to run schools, about $24,327 per student, plus $1.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.9 million local (mostly property tax), $8.5 million state, $3.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.7 million.
Spent $9 million — $8.3 million to run schools, about $23,588 per student, plus $190,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.1 million local (mostly property tax), $5.2 million state, $399,000 federal. Long-term debt: $5 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 Fulton County about $4.1 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.
159 bridges in Fulton County: 53 in good condition, 88 fair, and 18 poor (11.3%). “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-76) over LITTLE AUGWICK CREEK · built 1939 | 22,430 vehicles a day |
| US 522 over KENDALL RUN · built 1941 | 2,626 vehicles a day |
| US 522 over I-70 · built 1960 | 1,992 vehicles a day |
| PA 915 over UNT Laurel Fork · built 1953 | 603 vehicles a day |
| PA 655 over BARNETTS RUN · built 1936 | 536 vehicles a day |
| PA 655 over OWL RUN · built 1923 | 512 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $6.1 million of work in Fulton County in fiscal 2025, about $422 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 Fulton 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 Fulton County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Bedford County (21 mi) · Franklin County (21 mi) · Morgan County, WV (25 mi) · Washington County, MD (27 mi) · Berkeley County, WV (32 mi) · Huntingdon County (36 mi).