5,871 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.7% since 2020)
1,143 square miles of land · 5 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.
9 active community water systems list Greenwood County in the area they serve, reporting 6,875 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| EUREKA, CITY OF surface water · local government · KS2007306 | 2,289 served |
| GREENWOOD CO RWD 1 buys surface water · local government · KS2007305 | 1,885 served |
| GREENWOOD CO RWD 2 buys surface water · local government · KS2007302 | 1,062 served |
| MADISON, CITY OF surface water · local government · KS2007301 | 682 served |
| GREENWOOD CO RWD 3 buys surface water · local government · KS2007309 | 400 served |
| SEVERY, CITY OF surface water · local government · KS2007308 | 200 served |
| HAMILTON, CITY OF buys surface water · local government · KS2007303 | 180 served |
| FALL RIVER, CITY OF buys surface water · local government · KS2007304 | 129 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 30 people were held in Greenwood County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 862 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 15.
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 Greenwood County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $10.5 million — $9.8 million to run schools, about $17,542 per student, plus $582,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2 million local (mostly property tax), $7.7 million state, $1.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.7 million.
Spent $5.2 million — $4.6 million to run schools, about $18,853 per student, plus $543,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $951,000 local (mostly property tax), $3.5 million state, $1 million federal.
Spent $1.9 million — $1.7 million to run schools, about $16,262 per student, plus $261,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $480,000 local (mostly property tax), $1 million state, $275,000 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 Greenwood County about $8.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
235 bridges in Greenwood County: 58 in good condition, 127 fair, and 50 poor (21.3%). “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.
| RS 679 BSN 410 over FALL RIVER · built 1954 | 515 vehicles a day |
| RS227 BSN120 K Rd over SOUTH FORK OTTER CREEK · built 1959 | 233 vehicles a day |
| RS 227 BSN 130 over TRIB. S. FORK OTTER CK. · built 1936 | 233 vehicles a day |
| RS 291 BSN 310 over TRIB. TO VERDIGRIS RIVER · built 1928 | 166 vehicles a day |
| RS 290 BSN 200 over TRIB. TO FALL RIVER · built 1900 | 122 vehicles a day |
| County Rd. O over Slate Creek · built 1929 | 95 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $23.2 million of work in Greenwood County in fiscal 2025, about $3,856 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 Kansas 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 Greenwood 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 Greenwood County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Woodson County (26 mi) · Elk County (29 mi) · Butler County (33 mi) · Chase County (35 mi) · Wilson County (35 mi) · Coffey County (37 mi).