154,593 people (2024 Census estimate, +9.0% since 2020)
661 square miles of land · 234 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.
18 active community water systems list Wright County in the area they serve, reporting 114,781 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| Joint Powers Water Board groundwater · local government · MN1860024 | 30,922 served |
| Otsego groundwater · local government · MN1860026 | 19,000 served |
| Buffalo groundwater · local government · MN1860005 | 16,711 served |
| Monticello groundwater · local government · MN1860012 | 15,087 served |
| Delano Municipal Utilities groundwater · local government · MN1860007 | 7,500 served |
| Rockford groundwater · local government · MN1860018 | 4,863 served |
| Montrose groundwater · local government · MN1860016 | 3,915 served |
| Annandale groundwater · local government · MN1860002 | 3,430 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 146 people were held in Wright County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 151 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 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.
9 school districts have their office in Wright County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $86.9 million — $74.3 million to run schools, about $11,138 per student, plus $2.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $26.3 million local (mostly property tax), $71.2 million state, $4 million federal. Long-term debt: $148 million.
Spent $84.8 million — $72.7 million to run schools, about $13,682 per student, plus $4.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $28.8 million local (mostly property tax), $55.2 million state, $6.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $60.5 million.
Spent $74.5 million — $63.8 million to run schools, about $15,407 per student, plus $2.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $29.8 million local (mostly property tax), $40.1 million state, $4.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $45 million.
Spent $36.3 million — $29.7 million to run schools, about $12,124 per student, plus $1.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $14.8 million local (mostly property tax), $24.1 million state, $1.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $60.8 million.
Spent $32.9 million — $25.4 million to run schools, about $12,119 per student, plus $5.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.6 million local (mostly property tax), $21.6 million state, $1.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $2.9 million.
Spent $31.3 million — $27.2 million to run schools, about $13,259 per student, plus $1.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8.6 million local (mostly property tax), $20.2 million state, $1.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $17.1 million.
Spent $29.7 million — $22.9 million to run schools, about $14,635 per student, plus $4.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $10.6 million local (mostly property tax), $16.7 million state, $1.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $33.4 million.
Spent $21.5 million — $17.5 million to run schools, about $13,431 per student, plus $1.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.1 million local (mostly property tax), $13.8 million state, $948,000 federal. Long-term debt: $36.8 million.
And 1 more.
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 Wright County about $51.2 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
74 bridges in Wright County: 41 in good condition, 32 fair, and 1 poor (1.4%). “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.
| CR 108 over BUFFALO CREEK · built 1940 | 953 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $35.7 million of work in Wright County in fiscal 2025, about $252 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 Wright 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 Wright County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Sherburne County (21 mi) · Carver County (26 mi) · Hennepin County (27 mi) · Meeker County (28 mi) · McLeod County (29 mi) · Anoka County (36 mi).