7,615 people (2024 Census estimate, −2.2% since 2020)
320 square miles of land · 24 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.
2 active community water systems list Doddridge County in the area they serve, reporting 1,943 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| WEST UNION, TOWN OF surface water · local government · WV3300901 | 1,895 served |
| DODDRIDGE COUNTY PSD buys surface water · local government · WV3300902 | 48 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 17 people were held in Doddridge County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 342 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 18.
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 Doddridge County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $28.4 million — $25.2 million to run schools, about $22,500 per student, plus $2.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $20.7 million local (mostly property tax), $4.7 million state, $1.3 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Doddridge County about $6.1 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
99 bridges in Doddridge County: 38 in good condition, 39 fair, and 22 poor (22.2%). “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 ROUTE 50 EB over ARNOLD CREEK · built 1970 | 6,000 vehicles a day |
| US ROUTE 50 WB over ARNOLD CREEK · built 1970 | 6,000 vehicles a day |
| US ROUTE 50 EB over Middle Island Crk & CR · built 1970 | 3,650 vehicles a day |
| US ROUTE 50 WB over Middle Island Crk & CR · built 1970 | 3,650 vehicles a day |
| DODD CO RT 50/30 over MIDDLE ISLAND CREEK · built 1929 | 2,600 vehicles a day |
| WV ROUTE 18 over MIDDLE ISLAND CREEK · built 1990 | 2,500 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $9.6 million of work in Doddridge County in fiscal 2025, about $1,227 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 Doddridge 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 Doddridge County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Tyler County (16 mi) · Harrison County (17 mi) · Ritchie County (20 mi) · Lewis County (22 mi) · Wetzel County (23 mi) · Pleasants County (25 mi).