14,217 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.9% since 2020)
1,102 square miles of land · 13 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 Gogebic County in the area they serve, reporting 11,021 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| IRONWOOD groundwater · local government · MI0003420 | 5,387 served |
| WAKEFIELD groundwater · local government · MI0006830 | 1,808 served |
| BESSEMER groundwater · local government · MI0000660 | 1,619 served |
| WATERSMEET TOWNSHIP groundwater · local government · MI0006920 | 575 served |
| BESSEMER TOWNSHIP buys groundwater · local government · MI0005600 | 551 served |
| IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP buys groundwater · local government · MI0003430 | 474 served |
| MARENISCO TOWNSHIP groundwater · local government · MI0004080 | 430 served |
| GOGEBIC RANGE WATER AUTH buys groundwater · local government · MI0002685 | 177 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 17 people were held in Gogebic County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2020), or 205 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2015 it was about 30.
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.
4 school districts have their office in Gogebic County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $11 million — $10.6 million to run schools, about $14,547 per student, plus $58,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.1 million local (mostly property tax), $7.2 million state, $1.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $720,000.
Spent $5.1 million — $5 million to run schools, about $13,944 per student, plus $31,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1 million local (mostly property tax), $3.9 million state, $612,000 federal. Long-term debt: $260,000.
Spent $4.8 million — $3.9 million to run schools, about $15,421 per student, plus $862,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.7 million local (mostly property tax), $1.9 million state, $1.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $55,000.
Spent $4.3 million — $4.1 million to run schools, about $27,493 per student, plus $196,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.6 million local (mostly property tax), $804,000 state, $1.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $640,000.
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 Gogebic County about $5.7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
102 bridges in Gogebic County: 24 in good condition, 56 fair, and 22 poor (21.6%). “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.
| US-2 over POWDER MILL CREEK · built 1962 | 8,481 vehicles a day |
| LAKE ROAD over SPRING CREEK · built 1936 | 893 vehicles a day |
| LAKE GOGEBIC ROAD over SLATE RIVER · built 1978 | 400 vehicles a day |
| CROZER STREET over MIDDLE BR ONTONAGON RIV · built 1919 | 395 vehicles a day |
| OLD COUNTY ROAD over BLACK RIVER · built 1922 | 391 vehicles a day |
| LAKE ROAD over MUD CREEK · built 1932 | 368 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $25.9 million of work in Gogebic County in fiscal 2025, about $1,799 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 Gogebic 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 Gogebic County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Iron County, WI (25 mi) · Vilas County, WI (33 mi) · Ontonagon County (34 mi) · Ashland County, WI (43 mi) · Oneida County, WI (55 mi) · Price County, WI (62 mi).