12,290 people (2024 Census estimate, +5.9% since 2020)
814 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.
2 active community water systems list Douglas County in the area they serve, reporting 3,025 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| AVA PWS groundwater · local government · MO5010040 | 3,000 served |
| COUNTRY AIRE APARTMENTS groundwater · private · MO5071593 | 25 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 28 people were held in Douglas County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 421 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 20.
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.
2 school districts have their office in Douglas County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $15.8 million — $13.9 million to run schools, about $10,004 per student, plus $1.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.8 million local (mostly property tax), $8.5 million state, $5.2 million federal.
Spent $1.7 million — $1.3 million to run schools, about $13,566 per student, plus $84,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $337,000 local (mostly property tax), $858,000 state, $806,000 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 Douglas County about $6.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
75 bridges in Douglas County: 16 in good condition, 54 fair, and 5 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 76 E over INDIAN CR · built 1948 | 852 vehicles a day |
| MO 76 E over CLIFTY CR · built 1936 | 247 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD O-527 over WILLIAMS CR · built 1930 | 50 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD C-232 over BRYANT CR · built 1960 | 30 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD 14-279 over N FK OF WHITE RVR · built 1914 | 30 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $12.5 million of work in Douglas County in fiscal 2025, about $1,079 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 Douglas 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 Douglas County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Ozark County (21 mi) · Wright County (22 mi) · Webster County (30 mi) · Taney County (36 mi) · Howell County (37 mi) · Christian County (37 mi).