34,460 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.3% since 2020)
565 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.
8 active community water systems list Wexford County in the area they serve, reporting 13,632 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CADILLAC, CITY OF groundwater · local government · MI0001030 | 10,355 served |
| MANTON, CITY OF groundwater · local government · MI0004050 | 1,287 served |
| HARING CHARTER TOWNSHIP groundwater · local government · MI0003018 | 839 served |
| BUCKLEY, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · MI0000970 | 529 served |
| MESICK, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · MI0004310 | 397 served |
| CEDAR CREEK TOWNSHIP groundwater · local government · MI0001258 | 124 served |
| CURRY HOUSE ASSISTED LIVING CENTER groundwater · private · MI0061700 | 76 served |
| LAKE MITCHELL CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION groundwater · private · MI0003728 | 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 40 people were held in Wexford County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2020), or 194 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2015 it was about 32.
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 Wexford County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $62.8 million — $39.7 million to run schools, about $12,569 per student, plus $19.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $16.4 million local (mostly property tax), $30 million state, $8.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $55.3 million.
Spent $13.6 million — $12.6 million to run schools, about $13,159 per student, plus $622,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.2 million local (mostly property tax), $10.4 million state, $2.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $5 million.
Spent $10.2 million — $8.4 million to run schools, about $14,963 per student, plus $1.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.7 million local (mostly property tax), $5.6 million state, $2.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $309,000.
Spent $6.6 million — $6 million to run schools, about $12,600 per student, plus $408,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.7 million local (mostly property tax), $5.1 million state, $771,000 federal. Long-term debt: $2 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 Wexford County about $9.4 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.
64 bridges in Wexford County: 16 in good condition, 43 fair, and 5 poor (7.8%). “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.
| CHESTNUT over CLAM RIVER · built 1968 | 12,000 vehicles a day |
| POWERS STREET over CLAM RIVER · built 1900 | 560 vehicles a day |
| NO 5.5 ROAD over PINE RIVER · built 1976 | 290 vehicles a day |
| NO 19 ROAD over MANISTEE RIVER · built 1906 | 106 vehicles a day |
| NO 1 ROAD over SLAGLE CREEK · built 1975 | 25 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $21.6 million of work in Wexford County in fiscal 2025, about $642 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 Wexford 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 Wexford County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Missaukee County (24 mi) · Lake County (26 mi) · Osceola County (26 mi) · Grand Traverse County (27 mi) · Kalkaska County (34 mi) · Manistee County (38 mi).