9,855 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.6% since 2020)
579 square miles of land · 17 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.
11 active community water systems list Keokuk County in the area they serve, reporting 23,048 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| WAPELLO RURAL WATER ASSOC. buys surface water · private · IA9000742 | 17,263 served |
| SIGOURNEY MUNI WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · IA5475050 | 2,004 served |
| KEOTA WATER DEPT groundwater · local government · IA5440028 | 897 served |
| HEDRICK WATER SUPPLY buys groundwater · local government · IA5432042 | 728 served |
| WHAT CHEER WATER SUPPLY buys groundwater · local government · IA5493016 | 646 served |
| RICHLAND WATER SUPPLY groundwater · local government · IA5470083 | 542 served |
| DELTA WATER SUPPLY buys groundwater · local government · IA5417026 | 264 served |
| KESWICK WATER SYSTEM buys surface water · local government · IA5442029 | 252 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 11 people were held in Keokuk County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 181 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 7.
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.
3 school districts have their office in Keokuk County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $8.4 million — $7.2 million to run schools, about $12,164 per student, plus $613,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.4 million local (mostly property tax), $4.8 million state, $826,000 federal. Long-term debt: $1.4 million.
Spent $5.7 million — $4.3 million to run schools, about $13,308 per student, plus $464,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.3 million local (mostly property tax), $2.8 million state, $540,000 federal.
Spent $5 million — $3.7 million to run schools, about $17,351 per student, plus $522,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.9 million local (mostly property tax), $2.3 million state, $674,000 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 Keokuk County about $8.9 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
183 bridges in Keokuk County: 58 in good condition, 88 fair, and 37 poor (20.2%). “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.
| IA 78 over STREAM · built 1937 | 1,190 vehicles a day |
| OLD IA 77 over RICHLAND CREEK · built 1932 | 620 vehicles a day |
| CO RD W15 over SMALL STREAM · built 1932 | 620 vehicles a day |
| FM over CROOKED CREEK · built 1964 | 500 vehicles a day |
| FM over DME RR · built 1936 | 200 vehicles a day |
| FM over STREAM · built 1930 | 160 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $6.6 million of work in Keokuk County in fiscal 2025, about $653 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 Keokuk 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 Keokuk County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Washington County (23 mi) · Wapello County (24 mi) · Mahaska County (24 mi) · Jefferson County (25 mi) · Iowa County (25 mi) · Poweshiek County (31 mi).