10,161 people (2024 Census estimate, +3.2% since 2020)
4,463 square miles of land · 2 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.
11 active community water systems list Emery County in the area they serve, reporting 10,725 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| HUNTINGTON - CASTLE VALLEY SSD groundwater · local government · UTAH08006 | 2,129 served |
| CASTLEDALE surface water · local government · UTAH08001 | 1,700 served |
| FERRON - CASTLE VALLEY SSD surface water · local government · UTAH08004 | 1,660 served |
| NORTH EMERY SSD surface water · local government · UTAH08007 | 1,452 served |
| ORANGEVILLE surface water · local government · UTAH08008 | 1,420 served |
| GREEN RIVER CITY surface water · local government · UTAH08005 | 910 served |
| CLEVELAND WATER SYSTEM buys groundwater · local government · UTAH08039 | 509 served |
| ELMO TOWN buys groundwater · local government · UTAH08040 | 368 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 18 people were held in Emery County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 311 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 26.
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 Emery County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $62 million — $32.6 million to run schools, about $14,633 per student, plus $26.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $24.7 million local (mostly property tax), $16.3 million state, $3 million federal. Long-term debt: $66.8 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 Emery County about $3.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
125 bridges in Emery County: 23 in good condition, 101 fair, and 1 poor (0.8%). “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.
| NO DATA ENTERED over HUNTINGTON CREEK · built 1981 | 50 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $11.4 million of work in Emery County in fiscal 2025, about $1,156 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 Utah 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 Emery 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 Emery County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Carbon County (46 mi) · Sanpete County (52 mi) · Wayne County (54 mi) · Sevier County (61 mi) · Grand County (62 mi) · Piute County (89 mi).