10,971 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.2% since 2020)
477 square miles of land · 23 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.
5 active community water systems list Grant County in the area they serve, reporting 11,836 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| GRANT CO PSD-NORTHFORK-MAYSVILLE buys surface water · local government · WV3301206 | 4,829 served |
| PETERSBURG TOWN OF surface water · local government · WV3301204 | 2,841 served |
| MOUNTAIN TOP PSD surface water · local government · WV3301205 | 2,072 served |
| GRANT CO PSD-US 220 S buys surface water · local government · WV3301207 | 1,865 served |
| GRANT COUNTY PSD WELTON ORCHARD buys surface water · local government · WV3301209 | 229 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 29 people were held in Grant County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 448 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 38.
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 Grant County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $23.4 million — $21.1 million to run schools, about $13,063 per student, plus $2.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11.2 million local (mostly property tax), $9.5 million state, $4.5 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 Grant County about $8.2 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
97 bridges in Grant County: 25 in good condition, 61 fair, and 11 poor (11.3%). “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.
| CR 05 SLS over MIDDLE FORK PATTERSON CR · built 1951 | 1,900 vehicles a day |
| CR 05 SLS over PATTERSON CREEK · built 1952 | 1,900 vehicles a day |
| WV 93 F over ELKLICK RUN · built 1939 | 1,600 vehicles a day |
| WV 42 T over NORTH FORK LUNICE CREEK · built 1915 | 1,000 vehicles a day |
| WV 90 F over BUFFALO CREEK · built 1963 | 800 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD 03 SLS over LUNICE CREEK · built 1971 | 750 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $-239,070 of work in Grant County in fiscal 2025, about $-22 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 Grant 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 Grant County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Tucker County (20 mi) · Hardy County (20 mi) · Mineral County (24 mi) · Garrett County, MD (31 mi) · Pendleton County (31 mi) · Hampshire County (34 mi).