23,484 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.5% since 2020)
566 square miles of land · 41 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.
5 active community water systems list Osceola County in the area they serve, reporting 5,076 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| REED CITY, CITY OF groundwater · local government · MI0005650 | 2,425 served |
| EVART, CITY OF groundwater · local government · MI0002190 | 1,742 served |
| MARION, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · MI0004100 | 800 served |
| EAGLE VILLAGE, INC. groundwater · private · MI0001932 | 84 served |
| PINEVIEW HOMES groundwater · private · MI0005351 | 25 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 44 people were held in Osceola County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2020), or 318 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2015 it was about 6.
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 Osceola County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $21 million — $18.9 million to run schools, about $13,577 per student, plus $1.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5 million local (mostly property tax), $13.9 million state, $2.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $9.3 million.
Spent $15.7 million — $14.5 million to run schools, about $14,893 per student, plus $807,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4 million local (mostly property tax), $10.1 million state, $2.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $7.8 million.
Spent $15.1 million — $14.2 million to run schools, about $15,892 per student, plus $604,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.4 million local (mostly property tax), $8.8 million state, $2.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $6.4 million.
Spent $9.7 million — $6.3 million to run schools, about $15,150 per student, plus $3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.3 million local (mostly property tax), $3.4 million state, $1.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $7.7 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Osceola County about $6.4 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
103 bridges in Osceola County: 36 in good condition, 60 fair, and 7 poor (6.8%). “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.
| M-115 over WEST BRANCH RIVER · built 1937 | 4,184 vehicles a day |
| OLD M-61 over MIDDLE BRANCH RIVER · built 1939 | 3,600 vehicles a day |
| M-66 over MIDDLE BRANCH RIVER · built 1939 | 3,158 vehicles a day |
| M-66 over DOC & TOM CREEK · built 1924 | 1,990 vehicles a day |
| M-66 over MUSKEGON RIVER · built 1940 | 1,990 vehicles a day |
| 70TH AVENUE over FRANZ CREEK · built 1965 | 367 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $43.4 million of work in Osceola County in fiscal 2025, about $1,895 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 Osceola 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 Osceola County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Clare County (24 mi) · Lake County (24 mi) · Mecosta County (25 mi) · Missaukee County (25 mi) · Wexford County (26 mi) · Isabella County (34 mi).