16,378 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.7% since 2020)
714 square miles of land · 23 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.
10 active community water systems list Crawford County in the area they serve, reporting 15,526 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| DENISON WATER SUPPLY groundwater · local government · IA2424027 | 9,381 served |
| W CENTRAL RWA - DENISON SUBSYS buys groundwater · private · IA2424701 | 2,428 served |
| SCHLESWIG MUNIC WATER SUPPLY buys groundwater · local government · IA2446029 | 803 served |
| MANILLA MUNI SERVICE DEPT groundwater · local government · IA2436023 | 758 served |
| CHARTER OAK WATER SUPPLY buys groundwater · local government · IA2417018 | 522 served |
| DOW CITY WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · IA2427049 | 467 served |
| VAIL WATER SUPPLY buys groundwater · local government · IA2452044 | 383 served |
| WESTSIDE WATER SUPPLY buys groundwater · local government · IA2458023 | 277 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 8 people were held in Crawford County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 79 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 11.
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.
4 school districts have their office in Crawford County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $32.3 million — $28.9 million to run schools, about $12,757 per student, plus $2.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8.8 million local (mostly property tax), $21 million state, $3.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $2 million.
Spent $3.7 million — $2.9 million to run schools, about $11,881 per student, plus $159,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.2 million local (mostly property tax), $1.7 million state, $385,000 federal. Long-term debt: $1.2 million.
Spent $4.4 million — $2.9 million to run schools, about $15,838 per student, plus $394,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.5 million local (mostly property tax), $2.1 million state, $561,000 federal.
Spent $3.7 million — $2.5 million to run schools, about $17,871 per student, plus $89,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.8 million local (mostly property tax), $1.5 million state, $261,000 federal. Long-term debt: $2.7 million.
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 Crawford County about $23.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
301 bridges in Crawford County: 135 in good condition, 143 fair, and 23 poor (7.6%). “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.
| FM RT M-36 over EAST BOYER RIVER · built 1958 | 1,951 vehicles a day |
| DONNA REED DR over OVER UP RR · built 1935 | 1,846 vehicles a day |
| FM over SMALL STREAM · built 1967 | 627 vehicles a day |
| CO RD over EAST BOYER RIVER · built 1958 | 443 vehicles a day |
| MAIN ST over EAST BOYER RIVER · built 1913 | 303 vehicles a day |
| LOCAL over EAST BOYER RIVER · built 1967 | 125 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $13.9 million of work in Crawford County in fiscal 2025, about $840 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 Iowa 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 Crawford 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 Crawford County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Ida County (25 mi) · Shelby County (25 mi) · Carroll County (27 mi) · Sac County (28 mi) · Monona County (29 mi) · Harrison County (33 mi).