24,536 people (2024 Census estimate, +4.6% since 2020)
476 square miles of land · 52 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.
13 active community water systems list Antrim County in the area they serve, reporting 9,647 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MANCELONA AREA WATER AND SEWER AUTHORITY groundwater · local government · MI0004010 | 3,900 served |
| ELK RAPIDS, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · MI0002090 | 1,642 served |
| SHANTY CREEK - WATARS ASSOCIATION groundwater · private · MI0005995 | 1,250 served |
| BELLAIRE, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · MI0000570 | 1,086 served |
| CENTRAL LAKE, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · MI0001300 | 952 served |
| ELLSWORTH, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · MI0002110 | 349 served |
| MEADOWBROOK MED CARE FACILITY groundwater · local government · MI0064213 | 154 served |
| SUNSET TORCH ASSOCIATION groundwater · private · MI0006485 | 84 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 24 people were held in Antrim County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2020), or 175 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2015 it was about 45.
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.
6 school districts have their office in Antrim County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $31.8 million — $16.8 million to run schools, about $13,649 per student, plus $14 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $14.4 million local (mostly property tax), $4.7 million state, $1.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $21.8 million.
Spent $15.1 million — $13 million to run schools, about $15,107 per student, plus $1.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.7 million local (mostly property tax), $6.9 million state, $2.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.1 million.
Spent $6.5 million — $6.1 million to run schools, about $23,030 per student, plus $83,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.9 million local (mostly property tax), $1.1 million state, $700,000 federal. Long-term debt: $8.7 million.
Spent $6 million — $5.2 million to run schools, about $21,219 per student, plus $438,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.7 million local (mostly property tax), $806,000 state, $904,000 federal. Long-term debt: $195,000.
Spent $4.6 million — $3.9 million to run schools, about $16,395 per student, plus $502,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.2 million local (mostly property tax), $2.1 million state, $405,000 federal. Long-term debt: $2.5 million.
Spent $1.6 million — $1.6 million to run schools, about $16,302 per student, plus $35,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $994,000 local (mostly property tax), $607,000 state, $295,000 federal. Long-term debt: $425,000.
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 Antrim County about $9.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
15 bridges in Antrim County: 7 in good condition, 6 fair, and 2 poor (13.3%). “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.
| CAYUGA STREET over INTERMEDIATE RIVER · built 1977 | 3,000 vehicles a day |
| DEXTER STREET over ELK RIVER · built 1979 | 704 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $2.8 million of work in Antrim County in fiscal 2025, about $120 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 Antrim 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 Antrim County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Kalkaska County (23 mi) · Grand Traverse County (27 mi) · Otsego County (29 mi) · Crawford County (36 mi) · Emmet County (41 mi) · Leelanau County (44 mi).