7,622 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.5% since 2020)
490 square miles of land · 16 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.
7 active community water systems list Dade County in the area they serve, reporting 12,528 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| BARTON DADE CEDAR JASP COUNTYCONS PWSD 1 groundwater · local government · MO5024023 | 9,523 served |
| GREENFIELD PWS groundwater · local government · MO5010331 | 1,400 served |
| LOCKWOOD PWS groundwater · local government · MO5010475 | 890 served |
| EVERTON PWS groundwater · local government · MO5010259 | 352 served |
| DADEVILLE PWS groundwater · local government · MO5010202 | 218 served |
| SOUTH GREENFIELD PWS groundwater · local government · MO5010749 | 100 served |
| ARCOLA PWS groundwater · local government · MO5010025 | 45 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 10 people were held in Dade County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2017), or 220 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2012 it was about 7.
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 Dade County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $8.3 million — $5 million to run schools, about $14,261 per student, plus $3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.6 million local (mostly property tax), $2.4 million state, $893,000 federal. Long-term debt: $4.4 million.
Spent $4.1 million — $3.6 million to run schools, about $12,253 per student, plus $237,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.4 million local (mostly property tax), $1.8 million state, $602,000 federal. Long-term debt: $2.3 million.
Spent $2.7 million — $2.4 million to run schools, about $11,547 per student, plus $188,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.2 million local (mostly property tax), $1.3 million state, $360,000 federal. Long-term debt: $795,000.
Spent $2.3 million — $2.2 million to run schools, about $12,576 per student, plus $73,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $913,000 local (mostly property tax), $1.1 million state, $496,000 federal. Long-term debt: $691,000.
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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Dade County about $6.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
160 bridges in Dade County: 59 in good condition, 93 fair, and 8 poor (5.0%). “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.
| US 160 E over KILE CR · built 1930 | 1,607 vehicles a day |
| RT E E over HORSE CR · built 1940 | 705 vehicles a day |
| MO 245 S over SAC RVR · built 1951 | 619 vehicles a day |
| RT WW E over TURNBACK CR · built 1958 | 241 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD 195 over SAC RVR · built 1927 | 50 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD 156 over MUDDY CR BR · built 1920 | 25 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $2.7 million of work in Dade County in fiscal 2025, about $363 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 Dade 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 Dade County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Cedar County (21 mi) · Lawrence County (23 mi) · Barton County (27 mi) · Polk County (28 mi) · Greene County (31 mi) · Jasper County (31 mi).