69,314 people (2024 Census estimate, +4.0% since 2020)
705 square miles of land · 98 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 Montcalm County in the area they serve, reporting 20,419 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| GREENVILLE groundwater · local government · MI0002850 | 8,816 served |
| CARSON CITY groundwater · local government · MI0001170 | 3,322 served |
| HOWARD CITY groundwater · local government · MI0003240 | 1,800 served |
| MONTCALM COMMUNITY COLLEGE groundwater · local government · MI0004475 | 1,484 served |
| STANTON groundwater · local government · MI0006360 | 1,417 served |
| EDMORE groundwater · local government · MI0002070 | 1,256 served |
| LAKEVIEW groundwater · local government · MI0003750 | 1,007 served |
| SHERIDAN groundwater · local government · MI0006040 | 649 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 102 people were held in Montcalm County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2020), or 234 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2015 it was about 109.
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 Montcalm County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $60.6 million — $53.4 million to run schools, about $14,834 per student, plus $4.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $15 million local (mostly property tax), $40.9 million state, $6.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.3 million.
Spent $21.7 million — $19.5 million to run schools, about $14,189 per student, plus $1.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.6 million local (mostly property tax), $15.2 million state, $3.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $12.6 million.
Spent $17.5 million — $14 million to run schools, about $13,544 per student, plus $2.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.5 million local (mostly property tax), $9.9 million state, $2.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $28.8 million.
Spent $13.4 million — $11.3 million to run schools, about $11,714 per student, plus $1.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.9 million local (mostly property tax), $10.5 million state, $2.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $473,000.
Spent $14.6 million — $10.1 million to run schools, about $13,026 per student, plus $4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.6 million local (mostly property tax), $7.6 million state, $2.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $12.4 million.
Spent $16.3 million — $11.3 million to run schools, about $14,960 per student, plus $4.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.2 million local (mostly property tax), $8.2 million state, $1.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $19.8 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 Montcalm County about $19.3 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.
121 bridges in Montcalm County: 45 in good condition, 69 fair, and 7 poor (5.8%). “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.
| PINE GROVE ROAD over S BRANCH PINE RIVER · built 1920 | 333 vehicles a day |
| NIMBERGER ROAD over TAMARACK CREEK · built 1980 | 283 vehicles a day |
| TAMARACK ROAD over PINE RIVER · built 1978 | 269 vehicles a day |
| STEVENSON ROAD over W BR FISH CREEK · built 1970 | 105 vehicles a day |
| TAMARACK ROAD over TAMARACK CREEK · built 1998 | 57 vehicles a day |
| AMSDEN ROAD over DICKERSON CREEK · built 1905 | 37 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $10.5 million of work in Montcalm County in fiscal 2025, about $157 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 Montcalm 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 Montcalm County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Mecosta County (24 mi) · Ionia County (26 mi) · Gratiot County (27 mi) · Isabella County (28 mi) · Kent County (28 mi) · Newaygo County (37 mi).