471,240 people (2024 Census estimate, +3.2% since 2020)
904 square miles of land · 521 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.
45 active community water systems list York County in the area they serve, reporting 351,808 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| YORK WATER CO surface water · private · PA7670100 | 206,762 served |
| HANOVER MUNI WATER WORKS surface water · local government · PA7670076 | 40,900 served |
| DOVER TWP WATER SYS buys surface water · local government · PA7670073 | 21,097 served |
| RED LION MUNICIPAL AUTHORITY surface water · local government · PA7670086 | 15,882 served |
| DALLASTOWN YOE WATER AUTH buys surface water · local government · PA7670085 | 12,300 served |
| WEST MANCHESTER TWP AUTH groundwater · local government · PA7670101 | 9,960 served |
| DILLSBURG AREA AUTHORITY groundwater · local government · PA7670071 | 8,962 served |
| VEOLIA NEWBERRY SYSTEM groundwater · private · PA7670061 | 6,480 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 1,047 people were held in York County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 357 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 1,944.
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.
16 school districts have their office in York County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $176.3 million — $128.7 million to run schools, about $17,129 per student, plus $38.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $105.3 million local (mostly property tax), $38.1 million state, $9.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $113.3 million.
Spent $129.3 million — $107.4 million to run schools, about $16,860 per student, plus $11.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $92.9 million local (mostly property tax), $35.9 million state, $7 million federal. Long-term debt: $103.8 million.
Spent $169.5 million — $156.9 million to run schools, about $25,841 per student, plus $789,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $42.3 million local (mostly property tax), $129.1 million state, $29.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $58 million.
Spent $103.1 million — $95.6 million to run schools, about $17,064 per student, plus $1.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $75.5 million local (mostly property tax), $28 million state, $6.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $6.4 million.
Spent $94.7 million — $88.2 million to run schools, about $18,199 per student, plus $837,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $58.4 million local (mostly property tax), $38.6 million state, $6.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $29.4 million.
Spent $86.4 million — $73.1 million to run schools, about $16,594 per student, plus $4.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $58.8 million local (mostly property tax), $26.9 million state, $2.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $31.9 million.
Spent $81.2 million — $71.9 million to run schools, about $18,283 per student, plus $3.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $51.2 million local (mostly property tax), $28.6 million state, $5 million federal. Long-term debt: $44.8 million.
Spent $90.4 million — $68.7 million to run schools, about $17,743 per student, plus $11.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $56.3 million local (mostly property tax), $28.4 million state, $5 million federal. Long-term debt: $71.7 million.
And 8 more.
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 York County about $106 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
566 bridges in York County: 184 in good condition, 321 fair, and 61 poor (10.8%). “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.
| I-83; SR 0083 over T-955; LIMEKILN RD · built 1952 | 68,340 vehicles a day |
| I-83; SR 0083 over US 30; SR 0030 · built 1959 | 57,639 vehicles a day |
| 83 over 181 George St · built 1957 | 57,639 vehicles a day |
| I-83; SR 0083 over 2002/Springwood Rd · built 1959 | 57,515 vehicles a day |
| I-83; SR 0083 over 462; Market · built 1959 | 54,739 vehicles a day |
| PA 462; Market st. over TRIB KREUTZ CREEK · built 1928 | 14,919 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $163.9 million of work in York County in fiscal 2025, about $359 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 York 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 York County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Adams County (26 mi) · Lancaster County (27 mi) · Carroll County, MD (29 mi) · Cumberland County (33 mi) · Baltimore County, MD (34 mi) · Lebanon County (34 mi).