60,039 people (2024 Census estimate, +3.7% since 2020)
2,077 square miles of land · 29 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 Oxford County in the area they serve, reporting 19,682 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| RUMFORD WATER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · ME0091380 | 4,050 served |
| PARIS UTILITY DISTRICT groundwater · local government · ME0091230 | 2,940 served |
| MEXICO WATER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · ME0090970 | 2,425 served |
| FRYEBURG WATER COMPANY groundwater · private · ME0090600 | 2,085 served |
| NORWAY WATER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · ME0091180 | 2,043 served |
| BETHEL WATER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · ME0090160 | 1,813 served |
| DIXFIELD WATER & SEWER DEPT groundwater · local government · ME0090460 | 1,415 served |
| OXFORD WATER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · ME0091220 | 1,100 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 44 people were held in Oxford County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2009), or 115 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2004 it was about 46.
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.
7 school districts have their office in Oxford County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $50.2 million — $49 million to run schools, about $15,210 per student, plus $234,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $22.6 million local (mostly property tax), $25 million state, $6 million federal. Long-term debt: $12.7 million.
Spent $40.3 million — $36.2 million to run schools, about $20,282 per student, plus $2.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $14.6 million local (mostly property tax), $18.4 million state, $5.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.4 million.
Spent $22.4 million — $21.4 million to run schools, about $18,844 per student, plus $69,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $13.7 million local (mostly property tax), $8.6 million state, $1.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $14.9 million.
Spent $17.1 million — $16.8 million to run schools, about $16,842 per student, plus $32,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8.3 million local (mostly property tax), $7.9 million state, $2 million federal. Long-term debt: $3.9 million.
Spent $14.7 million — $14 million to run schools, about $18,293 per student, plus $327,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.9 million local (mostly property tax), $8.1 million state, $1.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.6 million.
Spent $13.9 million — $13.1 million to run schools, about $18,916 per student, plus $469,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $13.1 million local (mostly property tax), $1.4 million state, $1.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $853,000.
Spent $1.4 million — $855,000 to run schools, about $25,147 per student, plus $11,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $902,000 local (mostly property tax), $400,000 state, $101,000 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: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Oxford County about $22.4 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
253 bridges in Oxford County: 61 in good condition, 147 fair, and 45 poor (17.8%). “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.
| MAIN ST over TANNERY (BIRD) BROOK · built 1929 | 11,655 vehicles a day |
| MAIN ST over SWIFT RIVER · built 1952 | 10,165 vehicles a day |
| PARK ST over LITTLE ANDRO RIVER · built 1961 | 7,915 vehicles a day |
| BRIDGE ST over ANDROSCOGGIN RIVER · built 1936 | 7,203 vehicles a day |
| VETERANS ST over MCRR SIDING · built 1960 | 6,398 vehicles a day |
| US ROUTE 2 over ELLIS RIVER · built 1928 | 4,239 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $29.6 million of work in Oxford County in fiscal 2025, about $513 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 Maine 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 Oxford 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 Oxford County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Coos County, NH (29 mi) · Androscoggin County (34 mi) · Franklin County (37 mi) · Kennebec County (48 mi) · Carroll County, NH (49 mi) · Cumberland County (51 mi).