12,729 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.5% since 2020)
580 square miles of land · 22 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 Wright County in the area they serve, reporting 10,302 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| EAGLE GROVE WATER SUPPLY groundwater · local government · IA9926096 | 3,601 served |
| CLARION WATER SUPPLY groundwater · local government · IA9909031 | 2,810 served |
| BELMOND WATER SUPPLY groundwater · local government · IA9905003 | 2,463 served |
| GOLDFIELD WATER SUPPLY groundwater · local government · IA9937092 | 634 served |
| DOWS WATER SUPPLY groundwater · local government · IA9921050 | 526 served |
| WOOLSTOCK WATER SUPPLY groundwater · local government · IA9970037 | 144 served |
| ROWAN MUNI WATER SUPPLY groundwater · local government · IA9958004 | 124 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 12 people were held in Wright County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 161 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 Wright County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $19.6 million — $13.9 million to run schools, about $13,007 per student, plus $4.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8.6 million local (mostly property tax), $8.3 million state, $2.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $6.9 million.
Spent $14.6 million — $12.6 million to run schools, about $12,600 per student, plus $1.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.6 million local (mostly property tax), $9.3 million state, $1.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $4 million.
Spent $12.2 million — $9.8 million to run schools, about $14,075 per student, plus $1.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.9 million local (mostly property tax), $6.4 million state, $1 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.4 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Wright County about $13 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
175 bridges in Wright County: 61 in good condition, 66 fair, and 48 poor (27.4%). “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.
| C70 330TH ST over BOONE RIVER · built 1951 | 977 vehicles a day |
| FM over IOWA RIVER · built 1965 | 977 vehicles a day |
| 330TH ST over EAGLE CREEK · built 1951 | 966 vehicles a day |
| FM over EAGLE CREEK · built 1963 | 818 vehicles a day |
| FM over WHITE FOX CREEK · built 1963 | 742 vehicles a day |
| C54 265TH ST over DRAINAGE · built 1976 | 609 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $4.3 million of work in Wright County in fiscal 2025, about $334 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 Wright 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 Wright County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Franklin County (23 mi) · Hancock County (24 mi) · Hamilton County (24 mi) · Humboldt County (24 mi) · Webster County (30 mi) · Cerro Gordo County (34 mi).