14,655 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.7% since 2020)
519 square miles of land · 28 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.
10 active community water systems list Gasconade County in the area they serve, reporting 7,646 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| OWENSVILLE PWS groundwater · local government · MO6010618 | 2,800 served |
| HERMANN PWS groundwater · local government · MO6010360 | 2,500 served |
| BLAND PWS groundwater · local government · MO6010077 | 539 served |
| GASCONADE PWSD #1 groundwater · private · MO6036015 | 488 served |
| CONFLUENCE RIVERS GASCONY VILLAGE groundwater · private · MO3031293 | 414 served |
| ROSEBUD PWS groundwater · local government · MO6010702 | 410 served |
| GASCONADE PWS groundwater · local government · MO6010302 | 280 served |
| MORRISON PWS groundwater · local government · MO6010544 | 140 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 46 people were held in Gasconade County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 530 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 37.
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 Gasconade County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $20.7 million — $18.3 million to run schools, about $10,306 per student, plus $1.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $10.8 million local (mostly property tax), $10.9 million state, $1.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $12.2 million.
Spent $12.3 million — $10.6 million to run schools, about $12,284 per student, plus $950,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8.4 million local (mostly property tax), $3.9 million state, $2.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $8.6 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Gasconade County about $11.9 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
143 bridges in Gasconade County: 45 in good condition, 89 fair, and 9 poor (6.3%). “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 50 E over GASCONADE RVR · built 1979 | 2,422 vehicles a day |
| US 50 E over MOC RR · built 1980 | 2,411 vehicles a day |
| MO 19 S over BOURBEUSE RVR · built 1988 | 2,121 vehicles a day |
| MO 19 S over RED OAK CR · built 1931 | 2,121 vehicles a day |
| RT Y E over CEDAR BR · built 1957 | 1,283 vehicles a day |
| MO 100 E over BAILEY CR · built 1948 | 341 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $5.4 million of work in Gasconade 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 Gasconade 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 Gasconade County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Osage County (19 mi) · Franklin County (23 mi) · Warren County (29 mi) · Maries County (30 mi) · Montgomery County (34 mi) · Crawford County (34 mi).