17,780 people (2024 Census estimate, +4.1% since 2020)
229 square miles of land · 78 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.
9 active community water systems list Morgan County in the area they serve, reporting 4,847 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| BERKELEY SPRINGS CITY OF surface water · local government · WV3303301 | 3,526 served |
| PAW PAW WATER WORKS surface water · local government · WV3303308 | 524 served |
| BERKELEY SPRGS HEALTHCARE CENTER - UPPER groundwater · private · WV3303313 | 140 served |
| BERKELEY SPRGS HEALTHCARE CENTER - LOWER groundwater · private · WV3303315 | 140 served |
| TRI LAKE HOLDINGS, INC. groundwater · private · WV3303317 | 139 served |
| SKY LINE VILLAGE MHP groundwater · private · WV3303310 | 120 served |
| MORGAN VILLAGE MHP groundwater · private · WV3303334 | 98 served |
| WVAW - APPLE ORCHARD ACRES groundwater · private · WV3303314 | 91 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 36 people were held in Morgan County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 334 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 40.
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 Morgan County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $32.1 million — $31.2 million to run schools, about $14,306 per student, plus $477,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $12.7 million local (mostly property tax), $15.7 million state, $6.4 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 Morgan County about $7.7 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.
55 bridges in Morgan County: 13 in good condition, 27 fair, and 15 poor (27.3%). “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.
| US 522 F over BREAKNECK RUN · built 1931 | 6,000 vehicles a day |
| WV 09 F over SLEEPY CREEK · built 1900 | 3,100 vehicles a day |
| WV 09 over CACAPON RIVER · built 1937 | 1,100 vehicles a day |
| CR. 13 SLS over SOUTH FORK SLEEPY CREEK · built 1980 | 1,000 vehicles a day |
| CR 13 SLS over SLEEPY CREEK · built 1925 | 1,000 vehicles a day |
| CR 02 SLS over WARM SPRING RUN · built 1927 | 1,000 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $11.5 million of work in Morgan County in fiscal 2025, about $673 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 Morgan 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 Morgan County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Berkeley County (14 mi) · Washington County, MD (24 mi) · Allegany County, MD (24 mi) · Frederick County, VA (24 mi) · Hampshire County (25 mi) · Fulton County, PA (25 mi).