40,900 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.1% since 2020)
711 square miles of land · 58 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.
17 active community water systems list Mower County in the area they serve, reporting 32,224 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| Austin Utilities groundwater · local government · MN1500002 | 26,174 served |
| Grand Meadow groundwater · local government · MN1500008 | 1,154 served |
| LeRoy groundwater · local government · MN1500009 | 959 served |
| Brownsdale groundwater · local government · MN1500017 | 682 served |
| Adams groundwater · local government · MN1500001 | 672 served |
| Lyle groundwater · local government · MN1500011 | 521 served |
| Racine groundwater · local government · MN1500012 | 482 served |
| Rose Creek groundwater · local government · MN1500014 | 411 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 59 people were held in Mower County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2020), or 243 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2015 it was about 73.
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.
5 school districts have their office in Mower County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $89.4 million — $78.4 million to run schools, about $15,309 per student, plus $5.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $17.3 million local (mostly property tax), $63 million state, $11 million federal. Long-term debt: $65.5 million.
Spent $8.4 million — $6.6 million to run schools, about $14,786 per student, plus $339,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.4 million local (mostly property tax), $5.5 million state, $587,000 federal. Long-term debt: $18 million.
Spent $7.1 million — $6 million to run schools, about $13,533 per student, plus $385,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.7 million local (mostly property tax), $4.7 million state, $421,000 federal. Long-term debt: $7.6 million.
Spent $5.6 million — $4.8 million to run schools, about $15,849 per student, plus $266,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.2 million local (mostly property tax), $3.9 million state, $634,000 federal. Long-term debt: $7.9 million.
Spent $5.7 million — $4.7 million to run schools, about $18,136 per student, plus $403,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.8 million local (mostly property tax), $2.9 million state, $660,000 federal. Long-term debt: $676,000.
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 Mower County about $26.9 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
343 bridges in Mower County: 153 in good condition, 162 fair, and 28 poor (8.2%). “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.
| I 90 over ROSE CREEK · built 1959 | 13,166 vehicles a day |
| I 90 over N FK BEAR CREEK · built 1961 | 10,728 vehicles a day |
| US 218 over I 90 · built 1959 | 3,900 vehicles a day |
| MSAS 134 over DOBBINS CREEK · built 1932 | 3,700 vehicles a day |
| CSAH 14 over UPPER IOWA RIVER · built 1955 | 1,400 vehicles a day |
| MN 56 over STREAM · built 1940 | 1,357 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $18.2 million of work in Mower County in fiscal 2025, about $454 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 Minnesota 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 Mower 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 Mower County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Mitchell County, IA (22 mi) · Dodge County (25 mi) · Olmsted County (29 mi) · Freeborn County (29 mi) · Howard County, IA (30 mi) · Worth County, IA (32 mi).