60,198 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.4% since 2020)
931 square miles of land · 65 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.
54 active community water systems list Rutland County in the area they serve, reporting 45,989 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| RUTLAND CITY WATER DEPT surface water · local government · VT0005229 | 18,500 served |
| BRANDON FIRE DISTRICT 1 groundwater · local government · VT0005211 | 3,963 served |
| FAIR HAVEN WATER DEPT surface water · local government · VT0005218 | 3,076 served |
| POULTNEY WATER DEPT groundwater · local government · VT0005227 | 2,400 served |
| WEST RUTLAND TOWN groundwater · local government · VT0005244 | 2,400 served |
| PROCTOR WATER DEPT groundwater · local government · VT0005228 | 2,000 served |
| CASTLETON FIRE DISTRICT 1 groundwater · local government · VT0005212 | 1,940 served |
| PITTSFORD FLORENCE WATER DEPT groundwater · local government · VT0005225 | 1,652 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 Rutland County — not gathered, never hidden. Some counties share a regional jail or have none.
9 school districts have their office in Rutland County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $65 million — $59.3 million to run schools, about $30,414 per student, plus $3.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.2 million local (mostly property tax), $53.3 million state, $3.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.2 million.
Spent $34.1 million — $31.2 million to run schools, about $24,610 per student, plus $2.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $465,000 local (mostly property tax), $28.5 million state, $4.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $365,000.
Spent $24.9 million — $17.5 million to run schools, about $14,039 per student, plus $585,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $545,000 local (mostly property tax), $23.6 million state, $96,000 federal. Long-term debt: $5.6 million.
Spent $20.6 million — $16.9 million to run schools, about $15,214 per student, plus $128,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.5 million local (mostly property tax), $18.9 million state, $3,000 federal. Long-term debt: $2.1 million.
Spent $22.8 million — $21.9 million to run schools, about $27,348 per student, plus $141,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.7 million local (mostly property tax), $18.9 million state, $1.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $6 million.
Spent $9.7 million — $6.2 million to run schools, about $15,511 per student, plus $1,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $55,000 local (mostly property tax), $9.4 million state, $0 federal. Long-term debt: $2.1 million.
Spent $5.7 million — $3 million to run schools, about $13,958 per student, plus $73,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $112,000 local (mostly property tax), $5.9 million state, $22,000 federal. Long-term debt: $90,000.
Spent $5.9 million — $3.9 million to run schools, about $19,883 per student, plus $10,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $91,000 local (mostly property tax), $5.5 million state, $0 federal.
And 1 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 Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Rutland County about $18.7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
266 bridges in Rutland County: 125 in good condition, 134 fair, and 7 poor (2.6%). “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.
| VT 00031 ML over POULTNEY RIVER · built 1923 | 1,700 vehicles a day |
| C2002 over OTTER CREEK · built 1922 | 1,000 vehicles a day |
| VT 00155 ML over MILL RIVER · built 1940 | 1,000 vehicles a day |
| C2003 over NORTH BRITTAIN BROOK · built 1940 | 450 vehicles a day |
| EAST BAY ROAD over EAST BAY · built 1948 | 78 vehicles a day |
| C3047 over ROARING BROOK · built 1925 | 60 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $30.5 million of work in Rutland County in fiscal 2025, about $504 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 Rutland 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 Rutland County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Windsor County (23 mi) · Washington County, NY (28 mi) · Addison County (29 mi) · Warren County, NY (39 mi) · Bennington County (40 mi) · Orange County (44 mi).