3,111 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.4% since 2020)
498 square miles of land · 6 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.
3 active community water systems list Woodson County in the area they serve, reporting 3,311 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| WOODSON CO RWD 1 buys surface water · local government · KS2020703 | 1,773 served |
| YATES CENTER, CITY OF surface water · local government · KS2020702 | 1,335 served |
| TORONTO, CITY OF buys surface water · local government · KS2020701 | 203 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 7 people were held in Woodson County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 388 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 4.
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.
1 school district has its office in Woodson County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $7.4 million — $7.2 million to run schools, about $17,463 per student, plus $188,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.4 million local (mostly property tax), $5.1 million state, $909,000 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 Woodson County about $2.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
142 bridges in Woodson County: 54 in good condition, 73 fair, and 15 poor (10.6%). “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.
| K105 HWY over CEDAR CREEK · built 1949 | 534 vehicles a day |
| RS 291 180th RD over BRANCH OF CHERRY CREEK · built 1930 | 95 vehicles a day |
| Squirrel Rd. over OWL CREEK · built 1955 | 30 vehicles a day |
| 145th RD. over BRANCH OF CHERRY CREEK · built 1920 | 30 vehicles a day |
| 80th Rd over BIG SANDY CREEK · built 1930 | 20 vehicles a day |
| Kanza Rd. over TURKEY CREEK · built 1950 | 20 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $-13,081 of work in Woodson County in fiscal 2025, about $-4 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 Woodson 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 Woodson County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Wilson County (23 mi) · Coffey County (24 mi) · Allen County (25 mi) · Greenwood County (26 mi) · Neosho County (33 mi) · Anderson County (34 mi).