10,624 people (2024 Census estimate, +4.3% since 2020)
675 square miles of land · 16 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.
6 active community water systems list Alcona County in the area they serve, reporting 730 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| HARRISVILLE, CITY OF groundwater · local government · MI0003050 | 493 served |
| CRYSTAL SPRINGS ESTATES groundwater · private · MI0001705 | 81 served |
| LINCOLN ESTATES groundwater · private · MI0040001 | 48 served |
| JAMIESON NURSING HOME groundwater · private · MI0063476 | 39 served |
| LINCOLN HAVEN NURSING & REHABILITATION groundwater · private · MI0063865 | 39 served |
| LINCOLN MANOR groundwater · private · MI0003868 | 30 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 4 people were held in Alcona County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2020), or 73 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2015 it was about 20.
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 Alcona County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $12.4 million — $11.2 million to run schools, about $16,592 per student, plus $1.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8 million local (mostly property tax), $3.2 million state, $1.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $124,000.
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 Alcona County about $4.7 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.
27 bridges in Alcona County: 13 in good condition, 9 fair, and 5 poor (18.5%). “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.
| HURBERT ROAD over THUNDER BAY RIVER · built 1955 | 1,730 vehicles a day |
| HUBBARD LAKE ROAD over SUCKER CREEK · built 1936 | 830 vehicles a day |
| CRUZEN ROAD over SO BRANCH OF PINE RIVER · built 1984 | 339 vehicles a day |
| LAKESHORE DRIVE over BLACK RIVER · built 1984 | 280 vehicles a day |
| MCCONNEL ROAD over EAST BRANCH PINE RIVER · built 1935 | 159 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $28.5 million of work in Alcona County in fiscal 2025, about $2,802 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 Michigan 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 Alcona 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 Alcona County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Alpena County (18 mi) · Iosco County (19 mi) · Oscoda County (41 mi) · Presque Isle County (42 mi) · Ogemaw County (47 mi) · Arenac County (48 mi).