166,523 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.1% since 2020)
608 square miles of land · 274 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.
68 active community water systems list Monroe County in the area they serve, reporting 93,285 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| BRODHEAD CREEK REG WATER AUTH surface water · local government · PA2450034 | 30,000 served |
| PAWC POCONO DISTRICT groundwater · private · PA2450063 | 17,860 served |
| E STROUDSBURG BORO WATER DEPT surface water · local government · PA2450023 | 13,000 served |
| PAWC PENN ESTATES groundwater · public/private · PA2450065 | 4,300 served |
| TOBYHANNA ARMY DEPOT groundwater · federal · PA2450053 | 3,800 served |
| PAWC MANWALAMINK groundwater · private · PA2450049 | 3,200 served |
| BCRA POCONO JACKSON SYSTEM groundwater · local government · PA2450122 | 2,100 served |
| PAWC BLUE MT LAKE groundwater · private · PA2450133 | 1,753 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 334 people were held in Monroe County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 311 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 381.
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.
4 school districts have their office in Monroe County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $231.7 million — $204.5 million to run schools, about $25,454 per student, plus $9.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $149.1 million local (mostly property tax), $76.5 million state, $21.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $130.5 million.
Spent $166.1 million — $146.2 million to run schools, about $22,903 per student, plus $6.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $115.5 million local (mostly property tax), $56.4 million state, $12.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $110.8 million.
Spent $123.1 million — $106.1 million to run schools, about $23,411 per student, plus $3.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $83.5 million local (mostly property tax), $43.5 million state, $12 million federal. Long-term debt: $86 million.
Spent $98.2 million — $89.7 million to run schools, about $21,674 per student, plus $1.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $60 million local (mostly property tax), $49.6 million state, $5.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $9.6 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 Monroe County about $56.9 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
316 bridges in Monroe County: 86 in good condition, 170 fair, and 60 poor (19.0%). “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 209 (LR 461 W) over MARSHALLS CREEK · built 1930 | 21,886 vehicles a day |
| US 209 & PA 33NB over APPENZELL CREEK · built 1963 | 21,808 vehicles a day |
| I-80 EB (LR 1002) over SR 2005 (LR 45019) · built 1963 | 18,540 vehicles a day |
| PA 447 (LR 497) over SAMBO CREEK · built 1924 | 16,979 vehicles a day |
| PA 715 (LR 45024) over POCONO CREEK · built 1956 | 12,104 vehicles a day |
| PA 611 over BULGERS RUN · built 1942 | 11,960 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $20.7 million of work in Monroe County in fiscal 2025, about $123 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 Monroe 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 Monroe County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Northampton County (21 mi) · Warren County, NJ (22 mi) · Carbon County (22 mi) · Pike County (24 mi) · Lackawanna County (30 mi) · Lehigh County (33 mi).