83,468 people (2024 Census estimate, −2.4% since 2020)
102 square miles of land · 815 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.
13 active community water systems list Newport County in the area they serve, reporting 87,577 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| NEWPORT-CITY OF surface water · local government · RI1592010 | 42,155 served |
| PORTSMOUTH WATER & FIRE DISTRICT buys surface water · local government · RI1592022 | 17,090 served |
| NORTH TIVERTON FIRE DISTRICT buys surface water · local government · RI1592018 | 8,969 served |
| NAVAL STATION, NEWPORT buys surface water · federal · RI1000016 | 7,870 served |
| JAMESTOWN WATER DEPARTMENT surface water · local government · RI1858419 | 3,348 served |
| TIVERTON WATER AUTHORITY, TOWN HALL buys surface water · local government · RI1900042 | 3,213 served |
| STONE BRIDGE FIRE DISTRICT surface water · local government · RI1615619 | 2,793 served |
| PRUDENCE ISLAND WATER DISTRICT groundwater · private · RI1592023 | 1,500 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.
No county jail figure in the national data for Newport County — not gathered, never hidden. Some counties share a regional jail or have none.
6 school districts have their office in Newport County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $48.1 million — $44.7 million to run schools, about $20,499 per student, plus $1.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $38.3 million local (mostly property tax), $5.8 million state, $3.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $35.4 million.
Spent $49 million — $44.6 million to run schools, about $22,641 per student, plus $1.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $30.9 million local (mostly property tax), $11.6 million state, $6.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $6.4 million.
Spent $63 million — $52.9 million to run schools, about $27,740 per student, plus $1.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $29.6 million local (mostly property tax), $19 million state, $8.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $119.9 million.
Spent $42.6 million — $35.8 million to run schools, about $21,894 per student, plus $3.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $28.9 million local (mostly property tax), $10 million state, $2.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $32.8 million.
Spent $16 million — $11.7 million to run schools, about $28,084 per student, plus $381,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $13.7 million local (mostly property tax), $1 million state, $1.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $3 million.
Spent $9.3 million — $7 million to run schools, about $35,065 per student, plus $468,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.9 million local (mostly property tax), $1.1 million state, $393,000 federal. Long-term debt: $8.6 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Newport County about $13.9 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.
37 bridges in Newport County: 8 in good condition, 25 fair, and 4 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.
| GOAT ISL CAUSEWAY over NEWPORT HARBOR · built 1965 | 3,704 vehicles a day |
| VAN ZANDT AV over NEWPORT SEC RR · built 1919 | 3,030 vehicles a day |
| NANAQUAKET RD over NANAQUAKET RIVER · built 1958 | 1,115 vehicles a day |
| POND BRIDGE RD over NONQUIT POND · built 1935 | 957 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $125.6 million of work in Newport County in fiscal 2025, about $1,467 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 Rhode Island 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 Newport 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 Newport County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
More of Rhode Island: the state government and every county in Rhode Island.
Nearby counties: Bristol County (14 mi) · Washington County (19 mi) · Kent County (19 mi) · Bristol County, MA (20 mi) · Providence County (30 mi) · Dukes County, MA (31 mi).