21,712 people (2024 Census estimate, −7.6% since 2020)
423 square miles of land · 51 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.
13 active community water systems list Mingo County in the area they serve, reporting 15,339 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MINGO COUNTY PSD - PIGEON CREEK buys surface water · public/private · WV3303031 | 2,877 served |
| WILLIAMSON UTILITY BOARD surface water · local government · WV3303009 | 2,660 served |
| MATEWAN WATER WORKS surface water · local government · WV3303005 | 2,205 served |
| MINGO COUNTY PSD - NAUGATUCK surface water · local government · WV3303029 | 2,159 served |
| GILBERT WATER WORKS surface water · local government · WV3303002 | 1,840 served |
| KERMIT WATER WORKS surface water · local government · WV3303003 | 1,237 served |
| MINGO CO PSD - RAGLAND DISTRICT buys surface water · local government · WV3303013 | 621 served |
| JUSTICE PSD buys surface water · local government · WV3303014 | 504 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 114 people were held in Mingo County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 869 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 116.
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 Mingo County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $56.9 million — $52.4 million to run schools, about $14,081 per student, plus $3.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $12.1 million local (mostly property tax), $32 million state, $13.8 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 Mingo County about $17.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
165 bridges in Mingo County: 57 in good condition, 88 fair, and 20 poor (12.1%). “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 119 over CSX RAILROAD · built 1970 | 6,700 vehicles a day |
| US 52 over CR 119/1 · built 1992 | 4,400 vehicles a day |
| US 52 over UPPER BURNING CK & NS RR · built 1977 | 3,700 vehicles a day |
| WV 65 over CONLEY BRANCH · built 1977 | 2,100 vehicles a day |
| CR 14 over BUFFALO CREEK · built 1926 | 1,600 vehicles a day |
| CR 15 over NS RAILROAD · built 1934 | 1,500 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $34.9 million of work in Mingo County in fiscal 2025, about $1,480 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 Mingo 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 Mingo County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Logan County (14 mi) · Martin County, KY (20 mi) · Pike County, KY (21 mi) · Lincoln County (31 mi) · Buchanan County, VA (32 mi) · Boone County (32 mi).