7,358 people (2024 Census estimate, −3.9% since 2020)
130 square miles of land · 57 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.
3 active community water systems list Pleasants County in the area they serve, reporting 6,071 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| SAINT MARYS groundwater · local government · WV3303704 | 2,711 served |
| PLEASANTS CO PSD buys groundwater · local government · WV3303707 | 2,357 served |
| BELMONT, CITY OF groundwater · local government · WV3303701 | 1,003 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 17 people were held in Pleasants County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 342 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 17.
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 Pleasants County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $20.2 million — $18.2 million to run schools, about $16,780 per student, plus $1.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11.1 million local (mostly property tax), $7.6 million state, $2.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $5.5 million.
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 Pleasants County about $5.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
25 bridges in Pleasants County: 9 in good condition, 10 fair, and 6 poor (24.0%). “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.
| CR 5 over MCKIM CREEK · built 1952 | 100 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROUTE 30 over MCKIM CREEK · built 1978 | 100 vehicles a day |
| CR 22 over LEFT FORK FRENCH CREEK · built 1940 | 60 vehicles a day |
| CR 12 over COW CREEK · built 1958 | 50 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROUTE 36/2 over ALLEN RUN · built 1975 | 20 vehicles a day |
| CITY STREET over CSX RAILROAD TRACK · built 1980 | 10 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $-1,165,917 of work in Pleasants County in fiscal 2025, about $-152 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 Pleasants 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 Pleasants County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Ritchie County (14 mi) · Tyler County (17 mi) · Washington County, OH (18 mi) · Wood County (22 mi) · Monroe County, OH (25 mi) · Doddridge County (25 mi).