11,544 people (2024 Census estimate, −3.3% since 2020)
361 square miles of land · 32 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.
2 active community water systems list Summers County in the area they serve, reporting 21,912 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| WVAWC BLUESTONE PLANT surface water · private · WV3304513 | 20,562 served |
| BIG BEND PSD surface water · local government · WV3304507 | 1,350 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 25 people were held in Summers County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 367 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 30.
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 Summers County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $25.6 million — $19.5 million to run schools, about $14,800 per student, plus $6.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.6 million local (mostly property tax), $14.8 million state, $6.8 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 Summers County about $8.2 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
65 bridges in Summers County: 10 in good condition, 50 fair, and 5 poor (7.7%). “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 20 over BROOKS BRANCH · built 1935 | 2,900 vehicles a day |
| WV 12 over WOLF CREEK · built 1936 | 1,205 vehicles a day |
| WV 12 over BRADSHAW CREEK · built 1940 | 781 vehicles a day |
| I-64 WBL over CR 7 AND CSX RAILROAD · built 1985 | 400 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROUTE 7 over LAUREL CREEK · built 1997 | 387 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $3.7 million of work in Summers County in fiscal 2025, about $305 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 Summers 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 Summers County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Monroe County (18 mi) · Mercer County (22 mi) · Raleigh County (23 mi) · Giles County, VA (25 mi) · Fayette County (29 mi) · Greenbrier County (29 mi).