67,979 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.2% since 2020)
1,809 square miles of land · 38 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.
24 active community water systems list Marquette County in the area they serve, reporting 46,369 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MARQUETTE surface water · local government · MI0004120 | 20,629 served |
| ISHPEMING buys groundwater · local government · MI0003440 | 6,470 served |
| NEGAUNEE buys groundwater · local government · MI0004650 | 4,568 served |
| K I SAWYER groundwater · local government · MI0003510 | 3,000 served |
| MARQUETTE TOWNSHIP buys surface water · local government · MI0004140 | 2,700 served |
| FORSYTH TOWNSHIP groundwater · local government · MI0002370 | 2,479 served |
| ISHPEMING TWP - WEST groundwater · local government · MI0003450 | 2,148 served |
| NEGAUNEE TOWNSHIP groundwater · local government · MI0004655 | 961 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 62 people were held in Marquette County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2020), or 143 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2015 it was about 104.
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.
8 school districts have their office in Marquette County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $45.5 million — $43.3 million to run schools, about $13,390 per student, plus $1.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $15.6 million local (mostly property tax), $30.9 million state, $4.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.9 million.
Spent $25.3 million — $20.7 million to run schools, about $13,365 per student, plus $3.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.8 million local (mostly property tax), $16.7 million state, $1.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $11.5 million.
Spent $19.5 million — $17.2 million to run schools, about $14,865 per student, plus $1.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7 million local (mostly property tax), $12 million state, $994,000 federal. Long-term debt: $2.1 million.
Spent $16.2 million — $15 million to run schools, about $15,001 per student, plus $1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.1 million local (mostly property tax), $9.6 million state, $2.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $5.1 million.
Spent $12.6 million — $10 million to run schools, about $14,835 per student, plus $1.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.3 million local (mostly property tax), $7.5 million state, $1.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $10.7 million.
Spent $2.8 million — $2.6 million to run schools, about $30,233 per student, plus $35,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.9 million local (mostly property tax), $529,000 state, $258,000 federal. Long-term debt: $700,000.
Spent $1.7 million — $1.6 million to run schools, about $38,690 per student, plus $67,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.3 million local (mostly property tax), $308,000 state, $104,000 federal.
Spent $738,000 — $597,000 to run schools, about $42,643 per student, plus $132,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $835,000 local (mostly property tax), $105,000 state, $44,000 federal.
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 Marquette County about $26 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
147 bridges in Marquette County: 69 in good condition, 59 fair, and 19 poor (12.9%). “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-553 over CANADIAN NATIONAL RR · built 1976 | 7,200 vehicles a day |
| M-94|CO RD 460 over CANADIAN NATIONAL RR · built 1976 | 2,726 vehicles a day |
| M-35 over BR WARNER CREEK · built 1964 | 2,505 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD 581 over WEST BR ESCANABA RIVER · built 1928 | 900 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD 581 over ROCKY CREEK · built 1940 | 890 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD 557 over LITTLE WEST RIVER · built 1928 | 525 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $42 million of work in Marquette County in fiscal 2025, about $636 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 Marquette 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 Marquette County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Baraga County (37 mi) · Alger County (45 mi) · Dickinson County (46 mi) · Houghton County (56 mi) · Iron County (56 mi) · Keweenaw County (61 mi).