19,964 people (2024 Census estimate, −6.4% since 2020)
499 square miles of land · 40 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.
7 active community water systems list Wyoming County in the area they serve, reporting 13,906 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| RAVENCLIFF MCGRAWS SAULSVILLE PSD groundwater · local government · WV3305518 | 3,967 served |
| OCEANA COMMUNITY OF surface water · local government · WV3305516 | 3,796 served |
| EASTERN WYOMING PSD STEPHENSON WTP groundwater · local government · WV3305521 | 3,616 served |
| PINEVILLE MUNICIPAL WATER surface water · local government · WV3305517 | 2,162 served |
| BRENTON PSD groundwater · private · WV3305504 | 241 served |
| COAL MOUNTAIN WATER groundwater · private · WV3305527 | 80 served |
| GREEN CAMP PSD groundwater · local government · WV3305532 | 44 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 45 people were held in Wyoming County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 367 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 54.
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 Wyoming County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $61.4 million — $52.4 million to run schools, about $14,525 per student, plus $8.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $14.4 million local (mostly property tax), $30.5 million state, $13 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 Wyoming County about $18.9 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
159 bridges in Wyoming County: 5 in good condition, 103 fair, and 51 poor (32.1%). “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 16 over SLAB FORK · built 1985 | 4,800 vehicles a day |
| US 52 over MUZZLE FORK · built 1936 | 3,700 vehicles a day |
| WV RT 54 over SLABFORK · built 1958 | 3,000 vehicles a day |
| US 52 over HUFF CREEK · built 1978 | 2,700 vehicles a day |
| WV. 54 over SLAB FORK · built 1965 | 2,400 vehicles a day |
| WV 54 over SLAB FORK · built 1965 | 2,400 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $45.8 million of work in Wyoming County in fiscal 2025, about $2,143 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 Wyoming 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 Wyoming County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: McDowell County (16 mi) · Raleigh County (19 mi) · Logan County (27 mi) · Mercer County (28 mi) · Boone County (30 mi) · Tazewell County, VA (33 mi).