19,692 people (2024 Census estimate, −2.3% since 2020)
645 square miles of land · 31 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.
15 active community water systems list Labette County in the area they serve, reporting 19,599 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| PARSONS, CITY OF surface water · local government · KS2009914 | 9,479 served |
| OSWEGO, CITY OF surface water · local government · KS2009908 | 1,680 served |
| LABETTE CO RWD 5 buys surface water · local government · KS2009906 | 1,635 served |
| LABETTE CO RWD 6 buys surface water · local government · KS2009916 | 1,550 served |
| LABETTE CO RWD 8 buys surface water · local government · KS2009904 | 1,063 served |
| ALTAMONT, CITY OF buys surface water · local government · KS2009901 | 1,044 served |
| CHETOPA, CITY OF surface water · local government · KS2009905 | 921 served |
| LABETTE CO RWD 7 buys surface water · local government · KS2009912 | 540 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 75 people were held in Labette County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2022), or 639 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2017 it was about 70.
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 Labette County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $24.3 million — $20.3 million to run schools, about $13,018 per student, plus $3.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.1 million local (mostly property tax), $17.6 million state, $3.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $2.6 million.
Spent $23.5 million — $19.5 million to run schools, about $14,405 per student, plus $4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.5 million local (mostly property tax), $15.6 million state, $5.3 million federal.
Spent $8.2 million — $7.8 million to run schools, about $15,510 per student, plus $355,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $788,000 local (mostly property tax), $6.2 million state, $1.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $2.2 million.
Spent $6.9 million — $6.4 million to run schools, about $16,705 per student, plus $305,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.2 million local (mostly property tax), $5.3 million state, $929,000 federal. Long-term debt: $7.1 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 Labette County about $18.2 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
351 bridges in Labette County: 133 in good condition, 197 fair, and 21 poor (6.0%). “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 373 over TRIB. TO NEOSHO RIVER · built 1965 | 745 vehicles a day |
| RS 369 over TRIB. TO SNOW CREEK · built 1936 | 555 vehicles a day |
| 10th Street over Labette Creek · built 1960 | 400 vehicles a day |
| RS 377 over LABETTE CREEK · built 1967 | 240 vehicles a day |
| RS 377 over M.K.& T RAILROAD(ABAN.) · built 1928 | 78 vehicles a day |
| RS 1138 over TRIB. TO NEOSHO RIVER · built 1975 | 70 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $5.5 million of work in Labette County in fiscal 2025, about $270 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 Labette 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 Labette County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Montgomery County (24 mi) · Cherokee County (25 mi) · Neosho County (26 mi) · Craig County, OK (30 mi) · Crawford County (33 mi) · Nowata County, OK (33 mi).