7,653 people (2024 Census estimate, −2.7% since 2020)
940 square miles of land · 8 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 Pocahontas County in the area they serve, reporting 5,392 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MARLINTON TOWN OF surface water · local government · WV3303803 | 1,930 served |
| POCAHONTAS CO PSD - CHEAT MOUNTAIN WATER surface water · private · WV3303808 | 1,867 served |
| CASS SCENIC RAILROAD surface water · private · WV3303802 | 555 served |
| POCAHONTAS COUNTY PSD groundwater (surface-influenced) · local government · WV3303812 | 504 served |
| DENMAR CORRECTIONAL CENTER surface water · state · WV3303804 | 297 served |
| HILLSBORO TOWN OF groundwater · private · WV3303815 | 239 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 22 people were held in Pocahontas County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 491 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 29.
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 Pocahontas County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $18.5 million — $16.9 million to run schools, about $18,970 per student, plus $1.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.3 million local (mostly property tax), $10 million state, $4.8 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Pocahontas County about $6.8 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.
117 bridges in Pocahontas County: 30 in good condition, 58 fair, and 29 poor (24.8%). “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 39 over GREENBRIER RIVER · built 1959 | 6,700 vehicles a day |
| US 219 & WV 55 over STONY CREEK · built 1998 | 4,700 vehicles a day |
| WV 28 over NORTH FORK DEER CREEK · built 1957 | 1,700 vehicles a day |
| WV. 39 over CUMMINS CREEK · built 1947 | 1,400 vehicles a day |
| W. V. 28 over RILEY RUN · built 1970 | 1,300 vehicles a day |
| US 250 over W FORK GREENBRIER RIVER · built 1965 | 1,000 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $6.9 million of work in Pocahontas County in fiscal 2025, about $879 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 Pocahontas 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 Pocahontas County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Bath County, VA (24 mi) · Highland County, VA (24 mi) · Webster County (26 mi) · Randolph County (32 mi) · Greenbrier County (37 mi) · Alleghany County, VA (38 mi).