89,168 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.7% since 2020)
647 square miles of land · 138 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.
14 active community water systems list Lapeer County in the area they serve, reporting 20,436 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| LAPEER, CITY OF buys surface water · local government · MI0003780 | 9,023 served |
| IMLAY CITY, CITY OF buys surface water · local government · MI0003340 | 3,579 served |
| ALMONT, VILLAGE OF buys surface water · local government · MI0000150 | 2,674 served |
| DRYDEN, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · MI0001870 | 1,034 served |
| NORTH BRANCH, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · MI0004770 | 1,021 served |
| COLUMBIAVILLE, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · MI0001570 | 787 served |
| METAMORA, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · MI0004312 | 565 served |
| PINE RIVER RIDGE groundwater · private · MI0040672 | 425 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 43 people were held in Lapeer County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2020), or 75 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2015 it was about 91.
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.
5 school districts have their office in Lapeer County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $66.4 million — $61 million to run schools, about $13,902 per student, plus $2.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $14.7 million local (mostly property tax), $48.2 million state, $9 million federal. Long-term debt: $40.5 million.
Spent $32.9 million — $27.2 million to run schools, about $11,437 per student, plus $4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.7 million local (mostly property tax), $26.4 million state, $3.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $43.4 million.
Spent $38.1 million — $25.3 million to run schools, about $14,275 per student, plus $10.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8 million local (mostly property tax), $19.7 million state, $3.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $39.9 million.
Spent $19.2 million — $18.3 million to run schools, about $13,031 per student, plus $153,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.4 million local (mostly property tax), $15.1 million state, $1.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $14.3 million.
Spent $7.8 million — $6.6 million to run schools, about $13,994 per student, plus $339,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.6 million local (mostly property tax), $4.9 million state, $1.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.9 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: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Lapeer County about $28 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
163 bridges in Lapeer County: 61 in good condition, 89 fair, and 13 poor (8.0%). “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-24 over S BR FLINT RIVER · built 1948 | 18,440 vehicles a day |
| GENESEE STREET over FARMERS CR · built 1933 | 16,489 vehicles a day |
| MORRIS ROAD over SOUTH BR. FLINT RIVER · built 1967 | 4,300 vehicles a day |
| M-24 over FOSTORIA DRAIN · built 1974 | 4,293 vehicles a day |
| M-90 over N BRANCH FLINT RIVER · built 1965 | 3,217 vehicles a day |
| PECK ROAD over WEAVER DRAIN · built 1970 | 1,115 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $21.2 million of work in Lapeer County in fiscal 2025, about $239 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 Lapeer 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 Lapeer County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Genesee County (25 mi) · Tuscola County (30 mi) · St. Clair County (30 mi) · Oakland County (31 mi) · Macomb County (33 mi) · Sanilac County (38 mi).