64,472 people (2024 Census estimate, −2.1% since 2020)
416 square miles of land · 155 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.
20 active community water systems list Harrison County in the area they serve, reporting 63,000 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CLARKSBURG WATER BOARD surface water · local government · WV3301705 | 19,072 served |
| BRIDGEPORT CITY OF buys surface water · local government · WV3301703 | 11,158 served |
| SHINNSTON CITY OF surface water · local government · WV3301721 | 4,959 served |
| GREATER HARRISON PSD LOST CREEK MT CLARE buys surface water · local government · WV3301713 | 3,536 served |
| SUN VALLEY PSD buys surface water · local government · WV3301726 | 2,905 served |
| GREATER HARRISON PSD VALLEY OF GOOD HOPE buys surface water · local government · WV3301727 | 2,744 served |
| SHORTLINE PSD buys surface water · local government · WV3301722 | 2,727 served |
| GREATER HARRISON PSD - QUIET DELL buys surface water · local government · WV3301719 | 2,328 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 137 people were held in Harrison County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 342 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 141.
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 Harrison County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $151.1 million — $143.3 million to run schools, about $14,441 per student, plus $6.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $58.8 million local (mostly property tax), $70.3 million state, $38.6 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 Harrison County about $28.2 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
256 bridges in Harrison County: 80 in good condition, 112 fair, and 64 poor (25.0%). “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 WB over Salem Fork Pvt Dr Trai · built 1981 | 28,798 vehicles a day |
| US ROUTE 50 over CSX RAILBED · built 1977 | 26,100 vehicles a day |
| US ROUTE 50 over US 19 & WV 20 · built 1977 | 26,100 vehicles a day |
| US ROUTE 50 over Interstate 79 · built 1974 | 22,600 vehicles a day |
| I-79 NB over WV 270 · built 1965 | 14,650 vehicles a day |
| I-79 SB over WV 270 · built 1965 | 14,650 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $75 million of work in Harrison County in fiscal 2025, about $1,137 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 Harrison 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 Harrison County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Doddridge County (17 mi) · Marion County (17 mi) · Taylor County (19 mi) · Lewis County (21 mi) · Barbour County (23 mi) · Wetzel County (26 mi).