30,050 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.6% since 2020)
687 square miles of land · 44 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.
20 active community water systems list Orange County in the area they serve, reporting 9,966 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| RANDOLPH VILLAGE groundwater · local government · VT0005179 | 2,700 served |
| BRADFORD VILLAGE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · VT0005170 | 1,512 served |
| RANDOLPH CENTER WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · VT0005177 | 1,138 served |
| WILLIAMSTOWN WATER DEPT groundwater · local government · VT0005186 | 985 served |
| FAIRLEE TOWN WATER groundwater · local government · VT0005174 | 967 served |
| WELLS RIVER WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · VT0005176 | 490 served |
| NEWBURY VILLAGE INC groundwater (surface-influenced) · local government · VT0005175 | 480 served |
| CHELSEA WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · VT0005638 | 450 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 Orange County — not gathered, never hidden. Some counties share a regional jail or have none.
8 school districts have their office in Orange County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $19.3 million — $13.6 million to run schools, about $12,800 per student, plus $439,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $710,000 local (mostly property tax), $19.2 million state, $0 federal. Long-term debt: $1.2 million.
Spent $32 million — $29.2 million to run schools, about $33,999 per student, plus $1.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.5 million local (mostly property tax), $23.9 million state, $3.2 million federal.
Spent $17.2 million — $14.3 million to run schools, about $20,811 per student, plus $775,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.1 million local (mostly property tax), $14 million state, $0 federal. Long-term debt: $863,000.
Spent $10.4 million — $9.9 million to run schools, about $23,990 per student, plus $131,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $231,000 local (mostly property tax), $8.2 million state, $0 federal.
Spent $9.5 million — $4.9 million to run schools, about $12,594 per student, plus $60,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $171,000 local (mostly property tax), $9.2 million state, $0 federal. Long-term debt: $387,000.
Spent $7.7 million — $4.5 million to run schools, about $14,274 per student, plus $149,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $187,000 local (mostly property tax), $6.8 million state, $14,000 federal.
Spent $5.7 million — $2.9 million to run schools, about $14,577 per student, plus $80,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $256,000 local (mostly property tax), $5.4 million state, $65,000 federal.
Spent $3.4 million — $2.7 million to run schools, about $15,734 per student, plus $20,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $47,000 local (mostly property tax), $3.7 million state, $0 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 Orange County about $11.2 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
209 bridges in Orange County: 99 in good condition, 106 fair, and 4 poor (1.9%). “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 00089 ML over I 89 OVER TH NO 1 · built 1970 | 16,700 vehicles a day |
| US 00005 ML over WAITS RIVER · built 1939 | 5,000 vehicles a day |
| EAST THETFORD ROAD over CONNECTICUT RIVER · built 1937 | 1,949 vehicles a day |
| VT 00025 ML over WAITS RIVER · built 1946 | 1,700 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $45.4 million of work in Orange County in fiscal 2025, about $1,551 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 Vermont 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 Orange 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 Orange County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Washington County (22 mi) · Grafton County, NH (27 mi) · Windsor County (32 mi) · Caledonia County (35 mi) · Addison County (38 mi) · Rutland County (44 mi).