18,115 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.1% since 2020)
130 square miles of land · 139 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.
2 active community water systems list Montour County in the area they serve, reporting 5,242 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| DANVILLE MUNICIPAL WATER AUTH surface water · local government · PA4470007 | 4,992 served |
| BLUE SPRINGS TERRACE groundwater · private · PA4470008 | 250 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 17 people were held in Montour County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 155 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 27.
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 Montour County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $48.9 million — $39.5 million to run schools, about $18,250 per student, plus $5.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $26.4 million local (mostly property tax), $17.1 million state, $4.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $43.5 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 Montour County about $5.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
108 bridges in Montour County: 54 in good condition, 48 fair, and 6 poor (5.6%). “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.
| SR 54 over OVER MUD CREEK · built 1930 | 4,422 vehicles a day |
| RAILROAD STREET over SECHLER RUN · built 1969 | 2,000 vehicles a day |
| T-387 VALLEY TWP over MAHONING CREEK · built 1974 | 250 vehicles a day |
| T-396 CTY BR #12 over EAST BR CHILLISQUAQUE CR · built 1919 | 38 vehicles a day |
| T-308 CTY BR # 2 over BEAVER RUN · built 1912 | 15 vehicles a day |
| T-392 CTY BR # 9 over MUD CREEK · built 1907 | 1 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $22.7 million of work in Montour County in fiscal 2025, about $1,251 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 Montour 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 Montour County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Northumberland County (12 mi) · Columbia County (14 mi) · Union County (21 mi) · Snyder County (28 mi) · Sullivan County (29 mi) · Lycoming County (30 mi).