8,178 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.5% since 2020)
1,172 square miles of land · 7 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.
4 active community water systems list Schoolcraft County in the area they serve, reporting 4,902 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MANISTIQUE surface water · local government · MI0004040 | 3,197 served |
| SCHOOLCRAFT groundwater · local government · MI0005970 | 1,405 served |
| GERMFASK TOWNSHIP groundwater · local government · MI0002625 | 200 served |
| SENEY TOWNSHIP groundwater · local government · MI0005991 | 100 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 20 people were held in Schoolcraft County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2020), or 426 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2015 it was about 38.
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.
1 school district has its office in Schoolcraft County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $11.8 million — $10.4 million to run schools, about $14,479 per student, plus $794,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.3 million local (mostly property tax), $5.5 million state, $2 million federal. Long-term debt: $5.9 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Schoolcraft County about $3.4 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.
56 bridges in Schoolcraft County: 17 in good condition, 36 fair, and 3 poor (5.4%). “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.
| NO DATA ENTERED over S BRANCH STUTTS CREEK · built 1996 | 50 vehicles a day |
| USFS RTE 2251 over NORTH BR STUTTS CREEK · built 1951 | 15 vehicles a day |
| DUCK CREEK ROAD over DUCK CREEK · built 1922 | 5 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $1.8 million of work in Schoolcraft County in fiscal 2025, about $225 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 Schoolcraft 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 Schoolcraft County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Delta County (37 mi) · Alger County (41 mi) · Charlevoix County (42 mi) · Mackinac County (44 mi) · Luce County (47 mi) · Leelanau County (61 mi).