7,112 people (2024 Census estimate, +3.2% since 2020)
794 square miles of land · 9 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.
10 active community water systems list Wabaunsee County in the area they serve, reporting 4,939 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| WABAUNSEE CO RWD 2 groundwater · local government · KS2019711 | 1,400 served |
| ALMA, CITY OF surface water · local government · KS2019701 | 799 served |
| MAPLE HILL, CITY OF groundwater · local government · KS2019708 | 646 served |
| ALTA VISTA, CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · KS2019702 | 422 served |
| ESKRIDGE, CITY OF surface water · local government · KS2019703 | 413 served |
| WABAUNSEE CO RWD 1 buys surface water · local government · KS2019706 | 400 served |
| MCFARLAND, CITY OF groundwater · local government · KS2019707 | 281 served |
| PAXICO, CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · KS2019705 | 212 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 Wabaunsee County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2022), or 274 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2017 it was about 1.
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.
2 school districts have their office in Wabaunsee County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $8.3 million — $8 million to run schools, about $17,118 per student, plus $222,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.3 million local (mostly property tax), $5.8 million state, $496,000 federal. Long-term debt: $1.2 million.
Spent $7.2 million — $6.9 million to run schools, about $16,318 per student, plus $349,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2 million local (mostly property tax), $4.7 million state, $543,000 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 Wabaunsee County about $6.8 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.
242 bridges in Wabaunsee County: 89 in good condition, 128 fair, and 25 poor (10.3%). “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.
| RS1013 K185 HWY over I70 HWY NL-SL · built 1962 | 518 vehicles a day |
| RS 415 20-BB.2 over TRIB ELM CREEK · built 1938 | 51 vehicles a day |
| RS 665 8-Z.8 over MUNKERS CREEK · built 1930 | 41 vehicles a day |
| LOCAL RD. 13 over HENDRICKS CREEK · built 1900 | 33 vehicles a day |
| RS 1013 15-C.6 over WELLS CREEK · built 1932 | 32 vehicles a day |
| LOCAL RD. 60 over ST LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RR · built 1930 | 30 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $8.2 million of work in Wabaunsee County in fiscal 2025, about $1,185 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 Wabaunsee 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 Wabaunsee County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Shawnee County (25 mi) · Pottawatomie County (30 mi) · Morris County (30 mi) · Geary County (31 mi) · Osage County (34 mi) · Lyon County (35 mi).