20,496 people (2024 Census estimate, −5.7% since 2020)
502 square miles of land · 41 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.
No active community water system lists Boone County in EPA's records — not gathered, never hidden.
About 109 people were held in Boone County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 869 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 108.
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 Boone County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $52.1 million — $49.8 million to run schools, about $15,630 per student, plus $1.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $17.8 million local (mostly property tax), $26.2 million state, $9.3 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: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Boone County about $18.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
131 bridges in Boone County: 26 in good condition, 83 fair, and 22 poor (16.8%). “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.
| US 119 SBL over WV85 CR119/9 COAL RV.CSX · built 1973 | 11,900 vehicles a day |
| US 119 NBL over LITTLE COAL RIVER · built 1981 | 10,900 vehicles a day |
| US 119 NBL over WV85 CR119/9 CSX COAL RV · built 1973 | 10,088 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROUTE 85/8 over LITTLE COAL RIVER · built 1990 | 7,100 vehicles a day |
| CR 119/9 over TURTLE CREEK · built 1929 | 2,000 vehicles a day |
| WV 85 over POND FK OF LTL COAL RV · built 1952 | 1,600 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $13.1 million of work in Boone County in fiscal 2025, about $600 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 Boone 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 Boone County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Logan County (18 mi) · Lincoln County (22 mi) · Kanawha County (23 mi) · Wyoming County (30 mi) · Raleigh County (30 mi) · Mingo County (32 mi).