6,298 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.6% since 2020)
491 square miles of land · 13 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 Gentry County in the area they serve, reporting 6,355 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| ALBANY PWS groundwater · local government · MO1010006 | 1,710 served |
| GENTRY COUNTY PWSD 1 buys groundwater · local government · MO1024223 | 1,375 served |
| STANBERRY PWS buys surface water · local government · MO1010755 | 1,220 served |
| KING CITY PWS surface water · local government · MO1010425 | 1,100 served |
| GENTRY COUNTY PWSD 2 buys surface water · local government · MO1021221 | 900 served |
| NODAWAY CO EAST PWSD 1 surface water · private · MO1070639 | 25 served |
| GREAT NORTHWEST WHOLESALE WATER COMMISS buys groundwater · local government · MO1071603 | 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 9 people were held in Gentry County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2003), or 228 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 1993 it was about 5.
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 Gentry County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $6 million — $5.9 million to run schools, about $13,120 per student, plus $93,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.7 million local (mostly property tax), $2.7 million state, $1.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $220,000.
Spent $5.4 million — $4.8 million to run schools, about $13,074 per student, plus $565,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.3 million local (mostly property tax), $2.5 million state, $433,000 federal.
Spent $5.4 million — $5 million to run schools, about $14,146 per student, plus $186,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.1 million local (mostly property tax), $2.2 million state, $668,000 federal. Long-term debt: $3.5 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 Gentry County about $7.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
247 bridges in Gentry County: 130 in good condition, 84 fair, and 33 poor (13.4%). “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 48 E over 3RD FK PLATTE RVR · built 1929 | 766 vehicles a day |
| RT B S over ZOUNDS CR · built 1967 | 331 vehicles a day |
| RT A S over GRAND RVR · built 1962 | 251 vehicles a day |
| 285 TH ST over W FK OF GRAND RVR · built 1910 | 50 vehicles a day |
| 395 TH ST over TURKEY CR · built 2002 | 40 vehicles a day |
| 527 TH ROAD over LONG BR · built 1982 | 35 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $2.5 million of work in Gentry County in fiscal 2025, about $406 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 Gentry 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 Gentry County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Worth County (19 mi) · DeKalb County (22 mi) · Harrison County (24 mi) · Andrew County (26 mi) · Nodaway County (27 mi) · Daviess County (29 mi).