51,504 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.8% since 2020)
839 square miles of land · 61 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.
9 active community water systems list Newaygo County in the area they serve, reporting 11,076 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| FREMONT groundwater · local government · MI0002490 | 4,516 served |
| NEWAYGO groundwater · local government · MI0004710 | 2,571 served |
| WHITE CLOUD groundwater · local government · MI0007060 | 1,408 served |
| HESPERIA groundwater · local government · MI0003130 | 954 served |
| GRANT groundwater · local government · MI0002823 | 894 served |
| HESPERIA MHP LLC groundwater · private · MI0040587 | 248 served |
| LAKE FOREST PARK groundwater · private · MI0040368 | 185 served |
| HESS LAKE RV AND MOBILE HOME PARK groundwater · private · MI0040370 | 160 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 270 people were held in Newaygo County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 859 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 290.
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 Newaygo County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $36.3 million — $29.7 million to run schools, about $14,214 per student, plus $3.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $10.5 million local (mostly property tax), $23 million state, $4.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $35.4 million.
Spent $23.6 million — $22.6 million to run schools, about $13,794 per student, plus $461,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.3 million local (mostly property tax), $17.9 million state, $3.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $2.7 million.
Spent $22.2 million — $20.8 million to run schools, about $13,542 per student, plus $439,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.7 million local (mostly property tax), $14.3 million state, $2.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $26.4 million.
Spent $14.7 million — $12.1 million to run schools, about $12,994 per student, plus $1.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.8 million local (mostly property tax), $8.9 million state, $2.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $2.2 million.
Spent $13.5 million — $12.5 million to run schools, about $15,308 per student, plus $388,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3 million local (mostly property tax), $10.5 million state, $2.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $19.5 million.
Spent $423,000 — $387,000 to run schools, about $19,350 per student. Money in: $258,000 local (mostly property tax), $49,000 state, $168,000 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 Newaygo County about $13.2 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
66 bridges in Newaygo County: 28 in good condition, 32 fair, and 6 poor (9.1%). “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.
| BALDWIN AVE over WHITE RIVER · built 1958 | 600 vehicles a day |
| 10 MILE RD over BEAVER CREEK · built 1925 | 100 vehicles a day |
| 10 MILE RD over S BR PERE MARQUETTE RIV · built 1999 | 50 vehicles a day |
| GREEN AVE over BEAVER CREEK · built 1925 | 50 vehicles a day |
| 12 MILE RD over MCDUFFEE CREEK · built 1990 | 50 vehicles a day |
| 3 MI RD over WHITE RIVER · built 1920 | 25 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $3.4 million of work in Newaygo County in fiscal 2025, about $68 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 Newaygo 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 Newaygo County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Mecosta County (23 mi) · Lake County (30 mi) · Muskegon County (33 mi) · Oceana County (34 mi) · Montcalm County (36 mi) · Osceola County (38 mi).