26,778 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.5% since 2020)
328 square miles of land · 82 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 Mineral County in the area they serve, reporting 20,215 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| FRANKFORT PSD surface water · local government · WV3302928 | 6,747 served |
| KEYSER CITY OF surface water · local government · WV3302915 | 4,796 served |
| NEW CREEK WATER ASSOCIATION buys surface water · private · WV3302920 | 3,163 served |
| FRANKFORT PSD WILEY FORD groundwater · local government · WV3302926 | 1,062 served |
| FOUNTAIN PSD groundwater · private · WV3302942 | 1,001 served |
| CARPENDALE, TOWN OF groundwater · private · WV3302947 | 937 served |
| PIEDMONT MUNICIPAL WTR WKS groundwater · local government · WV3302921 | 847 served |
| FOUNTAIN PSD BURLINGTON groundwater · local government · WV3302949 | 793 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 73 people were held in Mineral County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 448 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 96.
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 Mineral County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $67.5 million — $56.6 million to run schools, about $14,078 per student, plus $10.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $16.4 million local (mostly property tax), $40.1 million state, $9.7 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 Mineral County about $14.7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
63 bridges in Mineral County: 20 in good condition, 38 fair, and 5 poor (7.9%). “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 93 (T) over NEW CREEK · built 1952 | 1,700 vehicles a day |
| US 50 T over NEW CREEK · built 1931 | 1,400 vehicles a day |
| WV 46 SLS over CSX TRANSPORT · built 1965 | 600 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD. 10 SLS over PATTERSON CREEK · built 1926 | 400 vehicles a day |
| CR 02 SLS over ABRAM CREEK · built 1942 | 90 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $24.6 million of work in Mineral County in fiscal 2025, about $915 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 Mineral 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 Mineral County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Hampshire County (19 mi) · Garrett County, MD (20 mi) · Allegany County, MD (20 mi) · Grant County (24 mi) · Hardy County (28 mi) · Tucker County (38 mi).