5,944 people (2024 Census estimate, −3.0% since 2020)
696 square miles of land · 9 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.
6 active community water systems list Pendleton County in the area they serve, reporting 3,097 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| FRANKLIN MUNICIPALITY OF surface water · local government · WV3303602 | 1,402 served |
| PENDLETON CO PSD(BRANDYWINE) surface water · local government · WV3303613 | 692 served |
| PENDLETON CO PSD-UPPER TRACT groundwater (surface-influenced) · local government · WV3303611 | 633 served |
| PENDLETON CO PSD-US 220 NORTH buys surface water · local government · WV3303608 | 156 served |
| PENDLETON COUNTY PSD RIVERTON groundwater · local government · WV3303614 | 130 served |
| PENDLETON CO PSD-CIRCLEVILLE groundwater · local government · WV3303609 | 84 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 15 people were held in Pendleton County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 448 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 21.
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 Pendleton County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $18 million — $16.6 million to run schools, about $19,141 per student, plus $1.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4 million local (mostly property tax), $10.6 million state, $2.2 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 Pendleton County about $9.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
113 bridges in Pendleton County: 18 in good condition, 71 fair, and 24 poor (21.2%). “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 220 over PETERS RUN · built 1918 | 1,800 vehicles a day |
| US. 33 over BRIERY GAP RUN · built 1928 | 1,400 vehicles a day |
| US 33 & WV 28 over N FK S BR POTOMAC RIVER · built 1956 | 1,400 vehicles a day |
| WV. 28 over SENECA CREEK · built 1939 | 1,200 vehicles a day |
| WV 28 & WV 55 over ZEKE RUN · built 1948 | 1,200 vehicles a day |
| U. S. 33 over ROARING CREEK · built 1930 | 1,200 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $-1,484,995 of work in Pendleton County in fiscal 2025, about $-242 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 Pendleton 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 Pendleton County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Highland County, VA (24 mi) · Rockingham County, VA (27 mi) · Randolph County (29 mi) · Harrisonburg city, VA (30 mi) · Grant County (31 mi) · Tucker County (32 mi).