15,369 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.6% since 2020)
341 square miles of land · 45 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 Barbour County in the area they serve, reporting 15,143 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| PHILIPPI CITY OF surface water · local government · WV3300104 | 3,544 served |
| CHESTNUT RIDGE PSD buys surface water · local government · WV3300102 | 2,744 served |
| CENTURY VOLGA PSD buys surface water · local government · WV3300107 | 2,603 served |
| BELINGTON TOWN OF surface water · local government · WV3300101 | 2,146 served |
| CENTRAL BARBOUR PSD buys surface water · local government · WV3300106 | 2,096 served |
| JUNIOR TOWN OF buys groundwater · local government · WV3300103 | 987 served |
| CENTRAL BARBOUR PSD - BELINGTON buys surface water · local government · WV3300110 | 629 served |
| PHILIPPI CITY OF - WELLINGTON HEIGHTS buys surface water · local government · WV3300108 | 246 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 47 people were held in Barbour County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 491 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 60.
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 Barbour County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $27.6 million — $26.3 million to run schools, about $12,182 per student, plus $1.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.4 million local (mostly property tax), $16.3 million state, $5.9 million 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 Barbour County about $7.7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
93 bridges in Barbour County: 15 in good condition, 66 fair, and 12 poor (12.9%). “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.
| US 119 over A&O RAILROAD · built 1937 | 2,300 vehicles a day |
| CO ROUTE 7 SLS over SHOOKS RUN · built 1912 | 850 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROUTE 21 over LAUREL RUN · built 1974 | 450 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROUTE 3 over RACCOON CREEK · built 1959 | 300 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROUTE 26 over MILL CREEK · built 1939 | 150 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROUTE 11 over MIDDLE FORK RIVER · built 1940 | 100 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $13 million of work in Barbour County in fiscal 2025, about $839 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 West Virginia 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 Barbour 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 Barbour County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Taylor County (14 mi) · Upshur County (21 mi) · Harrison County (23 mi) · Tucker County (23 mi) · Randolph County (26 mi) · Marion County (28 mi).