14,335 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.7% since 2020)
582 square miles of land · 25 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.
10 active community water systems list Hardy County in the area they serve, reporting 7,868 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MOOREFIELD MUNICIPAL WATER surface water · local government · WV3301601 | 2,328 served |
| HARDY COUNTY PSD 220 SOUTH buys surface water · private · WV3301607 | 1,463 served |
| HARDY COUNTY PSD 220 N buys surface water · local government · WV3301608 | 1,442 served |
| HARDY COUNTY PSD-ROUTE 55 buys surface water · local government · WV3301610 | 908 served |
| WARDENSVILLE, TOWN OF groundwater · local government · WV3301603 | 788 served |
| HARDY COUNTY PSD-SOUTH FORK buys surface water · local government · WV3301611 | 254 served |
| HARDY COUNTY PSD-TROUT RUN buys groundwater · local government · WV3301609 | 245 served |
| CALEDONIA HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION buys surface water · private · WV3301605 | 200 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 39 people were held in Hardy County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 448 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 50.
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 Hardy County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $30.3 million — $28.7 million to run schools, about $13,103 per student, plus $1.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8.7 million local (mostly property tax), $15.6 million state, $6.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $11.5 million.
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 Hardy County about $10.8 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.
132 bridges in Hardy County: 36 in good condition, 86 fair, and 10 poor (7.6%). “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.
| WV 259 F over BAKER RUN · built 1961 | 2,400 vehicles a day |
| WV 259 F over HALTERMAN HOLLOW RUN · built 1932 | 1,900 vehicles a day |
| C.R. 4/1 SLS over FORT RUN · built 1927 | 1,100 vehicles a day |
| CR 20 SLS over LOST RIVER · built 1998 | 700 vehicles a day |
| CR 12 over HOWARDS LICK RUN · built 1960 | 550 vehicles a day |
| CR 16 SLS over MILL GAP RUN · built 1987 | 300 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 Hardy County in fiscal 2025, about $919 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 Hardy 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 Hardy County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Shenandoah County, VA (18 mi) · Grant County (20 mi) · Hampshire County (24 mi) · Mineral County (28 mi) · Page County, VA (33 mi) · Frederick County, VA (34 mi).