10,774 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.5% since 2020)
591 square miles of land · 18 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 Guthrie County in the area they serve, reporting 6,889 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| LAKE PANORAMA WATER COMPANY groundwater · private · IA3900301 | 2,900 served |
| GUTHRIE CENTER MUNI WATER WORK groundwater · local government · IA3937016 | 1,593 served |
| PANORA WATER WORKS surface water · local government · IA3971026 | 1,142 served |
| BAYARD WATER SUPPLY groundwater · local government · IA3907092 | 405 served |
| CASEY WATER SUPPLY groundwater · local government · IA3914081 | 387 served |
| YALE WATER SUPPLY groundwater · local government · IA3980040 | 267 served |
| JAMAICA WATER SUPPLY buys surface water · local government · IA3949000 | 195 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 7 people were held in Guthrie County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 110 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 5.
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 Guthrie County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $14.2 million — $12 million to run schools, about $14,052 per student, plus $648,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.8 million local (mostly property tax), $7.2 million state, $1.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $3 million.
Spent $11.5 million — $9.6 million to run schools, about $13,861 per student, plus $1.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.9 million local (mostly property tax), $5.1 million state, $862,000 federal. Long-term debt: $6.8 million.
Spent $7.9 million — $6.4 million to run schools, about $13,677 per student, plus $320,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.1 million local (mostly property tax), $3.3 million state, $423,000 federal. Long-term debt: $3.1 million.
Spent $6 million — $4.3 million to run schools, about $15,834 per student, plus $451,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.9 million local (mostly property tax), $2.6 million state, $638,000 federal. Long-term debt: $115,000.
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 Guthrie County about $13.9 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
263 bridges in Guthrie County: 65 in good condition, 104 fair, and 94 poor (35.7%). “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.
| F 65 over MIDDLE RIVER · built 1959 | 996 vehicles a day |
| FM over MIDDLE RIVER · built 1969 | 450 vehicles a day |
| FM over SMALL CREEK · built 1965 | 417 vehicles a day |
| W SOUTH ST over MIDDLE RACCOON RIVER · built 1965 | 358 vehicles a day |
| FM over SOUTH RACCOON RIVER · built 1975 | 329 vehicles a day |
| LOCAL over SEELEY CREEK · built 1968 | 199 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $465,299 of work in Guthrie County in fiscal 2025, about $44 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 Guthrie 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 Guthrie County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Audubon County (21 mi) · Dallas County (24 mi) · Adair County (25 mi) · Greene County (25 mi) · Carroll County (31 mi) · Cass County (33 mi).