8,541 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.3% since 2020)
563 square miles of land · 15 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.
12 active community water systems list Daviess County in the area they serve, reporting 13,464 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CLINTON COUNTY PWSD 3 buys surface water · local government · MO1024155 | 3,722 served |
| DAVIESS COUNTY PWSD 2 buys groundwater · local government · MO1021080 | 2,448 served |
| DAVIESS COUNTY PWSD 1 buys groundwater · local government · MO1024186 | 2,165 served |
| GALLATIN PWS groundwater · local government · MO1010299 | 1,821 served |
| LIVINGSTON COUNTY PWSD 4 groundwater · local government · MO2024355 | 1,507 served |
| JAMESPORT PWS buys groundwater · local government · MO1010406 | 567 served |
| DAVIESS COUNTY PWSD 3 surface water · local government · MO1036130 | 400 served |
| PATTONSBURG PWS groundwater · local government · MO1010632 | 315 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 56 people were held in Daviess County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 1,134 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 54.
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 Daviess County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $7.7 million — $7.3 million to run schools, about $13,303 per student, plus $328,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.3 million local (mostly property tax), $3.3 million state, $1.2 million federal.
Spent $2.9 million — $2.6 million to run schools, about $13,289 per student, plus $305,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.2 million local (mostly property tax), $1.5 million state, $400,000 federal. Long-term debt: $1.4 million.
Spent $3.8 million — $3.3 million to run schools, about $17,386 per student, plus $282,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.6 million local (mostly property tax), $1.3 million state, $857,000 federal.
Spent $2.6 million — $2.4 million to run schools, about $17,283 per student, plus $195,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.6 million local (mostly property tax), $1.2 million state, $391,000 federal.
Spent $1.7 million — $1.6 million to run schools, about $26,613 per student, plus $25,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $862,000 local (mostly property tax), $706,000 state, $231,000 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 Daviess County about $7.4 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
217 bridges in Daviess County: 63 in good condition, 106 fair, and 48 poor (22.1%). “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 6 E over GRAND RVR · built 1968 | 4,837 vehicles a day |
| MO 190 E over CLEAR CR · built 1932 | 1,106 vehicles a day |
| MO 6 E over IS 35 · built 1966 | 793 vehicles a day |
| TOPPER AVE over CLEAR CR · built 1993 | 200 vehicles a day |
| UNITY AVE over OLD CHNL-GRAND RVR · built 1972 | 200 vehicles a day |
| RT BB E over IS 35 · built 1964 | 134 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $6.3 million of work in Daviess County in fiscal 2025, about $745 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 Daviess 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 Daviess County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Caldwell County (21 mi) · DeKalb County (24 mi) · Grundy County (24 mi) · Livingston County (26 mi) · Harrison County (26 mi) · Gentry County (29 mi).