22,808 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.0% since 2020)
742 square miles of land · 31 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.
11 active community water systems list Crawford County in the area they serve, reporting 16,010 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| SULLIVAN PWS groundwater · local government · MO6010775 | 7,081 served |
| CUBA PWS groundwater · local government · MO6010200 | 3,292 served |
| INDIAN HILLS UTILITIES OPERATING COMPANY groundwater · private · MO6036052 | 1,600 served |
| BOURBON PWS groundwater · local government · MO6010092 | 1,524 served |
| STEELVILLE PWS groundwater · local government · MO6010759 | 1,435 served |
| LEASBURG PWS groundwater · local government · MO6010457 | 350 served |
| VILLAGE OF WEST SULLIVAN PWS groundwater · local government · MO4011491 | 345 served |
| CRAWFORD COUNTY PWSD 1 groundwater · local government · MO6036037 | 155 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 74 people were held in Crawford County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 530 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 60.
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.
3 school districts have their office in Crawford County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $15.5 million — $13.4 million to run schools, about $10,414 per student, plus $1.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7 million local (mostly property tax), $7.9 million state, $2.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $842,000.
Spent $12.2 million — $10.9 million to run schools, about $11,755 per student, plus $558,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.5 million local (mostly property tax), $6.9 million state, $1.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.8 million.
Spent $11.3 million — $9.8 million to run schools, about $11,341 per student, plus $903,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.6 million local (mostly property tax), $5.9 million state, $2.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $8.3 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: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Crawford County about $18.4 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.
119 bridges in Crawford County: 31 in good condition, 80 fair, and 8 poor (6.7%). “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.
| MO 19 S over IS 44 · built 1966 | 10,136 vehicles a day |
| OR 44 E over LIT BOURBEUSE RVR · built 1966 | 1,126 vehicles a day |
| RT HH S over DRY CR · built 1961 | 118 vehicles a day |
| SMITH RD over THREE MILE CR · built 1968 | 35 vehicles a day |
| HIGH POINT RD over BRUSH CR · built 1949 | 35 vehicles a day |
| 4 MILE RD over BRUSH CR · built 1948 | 35 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $4.9 million of work in Crawford County in fiscal 2025, about $210 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 Crawford 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 Crawford County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Washington County (23 mi) · Phelps County (27 mi) · Dent County (27 mi) · Franklin County (33 mi) · Gasconade County (34 mi) · Maries County (36 mi).