7,843 people (2024 Census estimate, −5.4% since 2020)
256 square miles of land · 31 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.
4 active community water systems list Tyler County in the area they serve, reporting 7,027 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| TYLER COUNTY PSD groundwater · local government · WV3304801 | 3,195 served |
| SISTERSVILLE MUNICIPAL WATER buys groundwater · local government · WV3304803 | 1,892 served |
| MIDDLEBOURNE WATER WORKS surface water · local government · WV3304802 | 1,267 served |
| BENS RUN INDUSTRIAL PARK WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · WV9948024 | 673 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 16 people were held in Tyler 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 Tyler County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $36.2 million — $26.3 million to run schools, about $20,950 per student, plus $9.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $27.3 million local (mostly property tax), $4 million state, $3.4 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 Tyler County about $7.1 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
73 bridges in Tyler County: 26 in good condition, 33 fair, and 14 poor (19.2%). “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.
| West Virginia 18 over McElroy Creek · built 1936 | 2,200 vehicles a day |
| County Route 11 over Point Pleasant Creek · built 1918 | 450 vehicles a day |
| County Route 11 over Middle Fork Creek · built 1934 | 450 vehicles a day |
| County Route 32 over Point Pleasant Creek · built 1922 | 250 vehicles a day |
| County Route 10 over Left Buffalo Run · built 1951 | 90 vehicles a day |
| County Route 10 over Left Fork Buffalo Run · built 1965 | 90 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $-212,961 of work in Tyler County in fiscal 2025, about $-26 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 Tyler 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 Tyler County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Wetzel County (16 mi) · Doddridge County (16 mi) · Pleasants County (17 mi) · Monroe County, OH (21 mi) · Ritchie County (22 mi) · Marshall County (29 mi).