2,608 people (2024 Census estimate, +4.1% since 2020)
2,461 square miles of land · 1 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.
9 active community water systems list Wayne County in the area they serve, reporting 3,510 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK groundwater · federal · UTAH28011 | 1,070 served |
| TORREY TOWN WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · UTAH28007 | 550 served |
| LOA TOWN WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · UTAH28004 | 490 served |
| BICKNELL TOWN groundwater · local government · UTAH28001 | 380 served |
| FREMONT WATERWORKS CO groundwater · local government · UTAH28002 | 350 served |
| LYMAN WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · UTAH28005 | 235 served |
| HANKSVILLE TOWN WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · UTAH28003 | 210 served |
| TEASDALE SSD groundwater · local government · UTAH28006 | 180 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 Wayne County — not gathered, never hidden. Some counties share a regional jail or have none.
1 school district has its office in Wayne County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $13.3 million — $7.3 million to run schools, about $15,448 per student, plus $6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.7 million local (mostly property tax), $6.4 million state, $820,000 federal.
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 Wayne County about $1.8 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.
28 bridges in Wayne County: 8 in good condition, 18 fair, and 2 poor (7.1%). “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-24 over SULPHUR CREEK · built 1960 | 1,240 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD over FREMONT RIVER · built 1958 | 88 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $5.7 million of work in Wayne County in fiscal 2025, about $2,298 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 Wayne 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 Wayne County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Garfield County (39 mi) · Emery County (54 mi) · Sevier County (56 mi) · Piute County (62 mi) · San Juan County (79 mi) · Kane County (81 mi).