62,376 people (2024 Census estimate, +6.5% since 2020)
545 square miles of land · 114 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.
42 active community water systems list Pike County in the area they serve, reporting 42,044 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| HEMLOCK FARMS (MAIN) groundwater · private · PA2520033 | 8,321 served |
| PAWC SAW CREEK ESTATES groundwater · private · PA2520062 | 7,016 served |
| AQUA PA FAWN LAKE FOREST groundwater · private · PA2520037 | 6,533 served |
| PAWC WILD ACRES groundwater · private · PA2520034 | 2,943 served |
| MUNI AUTH OF BORO OF MATAMORAS groundwater · local government · PA2520044 | 2,900 served |
| PAWC PINE RIDGE SYSTEM groundwater · private · PA2520096 | 2,450 served |
| MILFORD WATER AUTHORITY groundwater (surface-influenced) · local government · PA2520046 | 2,420 served |
| AQUA PA TANGLEWOOD LAKES groundwater · private · PA2520065 | 1,321 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 211 people were held in Pike County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 559 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 309.
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.
2 school districts have their office in Pike County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $95 million — $89.1 million to run schools, about $20,641 per student, plus $3.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $54.7 million local (mostly property tax), $37.2 million state, $5.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $30.3 million.
Spent $86.6 million — $81.7 million to run schools, about $29,212 per student, plus $2.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $61.6 million local (mostly property tax), $21.3 million state, $4.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $20.1 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 Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Pike County about $24.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
158 bridges in Pike County: 58 in good condition, 63 fair, and 37 poor (23.4%). “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 0006 TR 6 over DELAWARE RIVER · built 1939 | 18,429 vehicles a day |
| SR 0006 TR 6 over PP&L FLUME · built 1959 | 9,766 vehicles a day |
| SR 0006 TR 6 over SAWKILL CREEK · built 1957 | 8,574 vehicles a day |
| SR 0209 TR 209 over SAWKILL CREEK · built 1942 | 7,699 vehicles a day |
| SR 0006 TR 6 over DECKER CREEK · built 1950 | 5,455 vehicles a day |
| DINGMANS FALLS ACC over DINGMANS CREEK · built 1960 | 5,017 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $6.9 million of work in Pike County in fiscal 2025, about $117 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 Pike 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 Pike County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Sussex County, NJ (22 mi) · Monroe County (24 mi) · Wayne County (26 mi) · Sullivan County, NY (30 mi) · Lackawanna County (31 mi) · Warren County, NJ (33 mi).