25,995 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.5% since 2020)
502 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.
8 active community water systems list Gladwin County in the area they serve, reporting 4,711 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| GLADWIN, CITY OF groundwater · local government · MI0002650 | 2,933 served |
| BEAVERTON groundwater · local government · MI0000520 | 1,170 served |
| PLEASANT BEACH MOBILE HOME RESORT groundwater · private · MI0040167 | 250 served |
| LAKESHORE VILLAGE groundwater · private · MI0040169 | 118 served |
| LAKESIDE DEVELOPMENT groundwater · private · MI0003752 | 82 served |
| GLADWIN NURSING AND REHABILITATION COMMU groundwater · private · MI0062653 | 60 served |
| KEY COURT MOBILE HOME PARK groundwater · private · MI0040166 | 55 served |
| SECORD LAKE MHP groundwater · private · MI0040168 | 43 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 63 people were held in Gladwin County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 429 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 78.
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 Gladwin County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $23.2 million — $21.2 million to run schools, about $13,213 per student, plus $891,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8.4 million local (mostly property tax), $13.5 million state, $4.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.3 million.
Spent $19.6 million — $14.4 million to run schools, about $15,520 per student, plus $4.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.9 million local (mostly property tax), $8.4 million state, $3.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $14.6 million.
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 Gladwin County about $9.2 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
63 bridges in Gladwin County: 24 in good condition, 35 fair, and 4 poor (6.3%). “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.
| M-18 over TOBACCO RIVER · built 1939 | 6,100 vehicles a day |
| DALE ROAD over TOBACCO RIVER · built 1970 | 585 vehicles a day |
| HIGHWOOD ROAD over TITTABAWASEE RIVER · built 1984 | 495 vehicles a day |
| BARD RD over S BR OF TOBACCO RIV · built 1970 | 220 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $2.1 million of work in Gladwin County in fiscal 2025, about $83 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 Gladwin 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 Gladwin County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Clare County (22 mi) · Midland County (24 mi) · Roscommon County (27 mi) · Ogemaw County (27 mi) · Bay County (29 mi) · Arenac County (32 mi).