6,573 people (2024 Census estimate, −2.7% since 2020)
419 square miles of land · 16 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 Tucker County in the area they serve, reporting 5,553 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| HAMRICK PSD surface water · local government · WV3304704 | 1,785 served |
| PARSONS CITY OF surface water · local government · WV3304707 | 1,461 served |
| DAVIS WATER WORKS surface water · local government · WV3304701 | 952 served |
| THOMAS CITY OF surface water · local government · WV3304709 | 753 served |
| TIMBERLINE-CV PSD groundwater (surface-influenced) · private · WV3304711 | 577 served |
| NORTH LAKES SUBDIVISION groundwater · local government · WV3304712 | 25 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 19 people were held in Tucker County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 491 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 26.
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 Tucker County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $15.6 million — $15.2 million to run schools, about $15,776 per student, plus $381,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.1 million local (mostly property tax), $8.7 million state, $3.9 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 Tucker County about $4.5 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.
70 bridges in Tucker County: 21 in good condition, 37 fair, and 12 poor (17.1%). “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 32 over BLACKWATER RIVER · built 1931 | 1,800 vehicles a day |
| WV. 38 over BRUSHY FORK · built 1948 | 700 vehicles a day |
| C.R. 1 over MINEAR RUN · built 1997 | 400 vehicles a day |
| WV 72 over LICKING CREEK · built 1957 | 300 vehicles a day |
| WV 72 over RED RUN · built 1933 | 250 vehicles a day |
| C. R. 7 over LEADMINE RUN · built 1961 | 100 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $12.5 million of work in Tucker County in fiscal 2025, about $1,846 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 Tucker 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 Tucker County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Grant County (20 mi) · Barbour County (23 mi) · Preston County (25 mi) · Randolph County (28 mi) · Taylor County (30 mi) · Pendleton County (32 mi).