10,610 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.5% since 2020)
618 square miles of land · 17 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 Bollinger County in the area they serve, reporting 1,945 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MARBLE HILL SOUTH PWS buys groundwater · local government · MO4010483 | 862 served |
| MARBLE HILL NORTH PWS groundwater · local government · MO4010496 | 664 served |
| SEDGEWICKVILLE PWS groundwater · local government · MO4010729 | 197 served |
| BOLLINGER COUNTY PWSD 1 groundwater · local government · MO4010422 | 142 served |
| DIANAS BOARDING HOME 2 groundwater · private · MO4061392 | 80 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 13 people were held in Bollinger County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 201 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 27.
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 Bollinger County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $12.4 million — $9.4 million to run schools, about $11,036 per student, plus $2.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.7 million local (mostly property tax), $5.7 million state, $3.7 million federal.
Spent $5.7 million — $5.3 million to run schools, about $10,671 per student, plus $256,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.1 million local (mostly property tax), $3 million state, $705,000 federal. Long-term debt: $1.1 million.
Spent $4.1 million — $2.7 million to run schools, about $13,777 per student, plus $1.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $638,000 local (mostly property tax), $1.6 million state, $450,000 federal.
Spent $2.2 million — $2.2 million to run schools, about $12,022 per student, plus $2,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $582,000 local (mostly property tax), $1.3 million state, $291,000 federal.
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 Bollinger County about $9.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
124 bridges in Bollinger County: 39 in good condition, 68 fair, and 17 poor (13.7%). “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.
| RT ZZ E over LIT CROOKED CR · built 1961 | 246 vehicles a day |
| GLEN ALLEN over CROOKED CR · built 1908 | 100 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD 714 over SLAGLE CR · built 1925 | 50 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD 906 over LIT WHITEWATER CR · built 1928 | 35 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD 234 over BR OF WHITEWATER C · built 1920 | 35 vehicles a day |
| CITY ST 234 over WHITEWATER RVR · built 1925 | 35 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $8.7 million of work in Bollinger County in fiscal 2025, about $823 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 Missouri 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 Bollinger 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 Bollinger County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Cape Girardeau County (19 mi) · Madison County (21 mi) · Wayne County (28 mi) · Perry County (30 mi) · Scott County (31 mi) · Stoddard County (32 mi).