27,190 people (2024 Census estimate, −2.5% since 2020)
1,040 square miles of land · 26 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.
11 active community water systems list Randolph County in the area they serve, reporting 25,095 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| ELKINS CITY OF surface water · local government · WV3304203 | 9,350 served |
| HUTTONSVILLE PSD surface water · local government · WV3304211 | 4,758 served |
| MIDLAND PSD buys surface water · local government · WV3304208 | 3,802 served |
| BEVERLY TOWN OF surface water · local government · WV3304202 | 2,268 served |
| NORTON HARDING JIMTOWN PSD groundwater · local government · WV3304213 | 1,632 served |
| LEADSVILLE PSD buys surface water · private · WV3304215 | 1,536 served |
| MILL CREEK WATER DEPT surface water · local government · WV3304209 | 591 served |
| HARMAN TOWN OF groundwater (surface-influenced) · local government · WV3304204 | 456 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 84 people were held in Randolph County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 491 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 109.
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 Randolph County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $49.5 million — $47.1 million to run schools, about $12,943 per student, plus $2.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $10.1 million local (mostly property tax), $28.5 million state, $11.3 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 Randolph County about $18.7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
189 bridges in Randolph County: 56 in good condition, 103 fair, and 30 poor (15.9%). “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.
| DAVIS AVENUE over TYGART VALLEY RIVER · built 1948 | 8,000 vehicles a day |
| US.219;US250;WV.92 over FILES CREEK · built 1980 | 7,900 vehicles a day |
| US 33 over TYGART VALLEY R.& CSX RR · built 1994 | 4,100 vehicles a day |
| US 33 over TYGART VALLEY R. & CSX R · built 1994 | 4,100 vehicles a day |
| US. 33 & WV. 55 over ISNER CREEK · built 1939 | 3,800 vehicles a day |
| US. 33 over HORSECAMP RUN · built 1955 | 2,100 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $26.5 million of work in Randolph County in fiscal 2025, about $949 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 Randolph 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 Randolph County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Upshur County (21 mi) · Barbour County (26 mi) · Tucker County (28 mi) · Pendleton County (29 mi) · Pocahontas County (32 mi) · Highland County, VA (33 mi).