4,241 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.2% since 2020)
463 square miles of land · 9 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.
8 active community water systems list Holt County in the area they serve, reporting 5,976 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| BIG LAKE VILLAGE OF PWS buys groundwater · local government · MO1011182 | 2,000 served |
| MOUND CITY PWS groundwater · local government · MO1010548 | 1,159 served |
| HOLT COUNTY PWSD 1 buys groundwater · local government · MO1021304 | 1,140 served |
| OREGON PWS groundwater · local government · MO1010605 | 837 served |
| CRAIG PWS groundwater · local government · MO1010191 | 400 served |
| FOREST CITY PWS buys groundwater · local government · MO1011643 | 260 served |
| MAITLAND PWS groundwater · local government · MO1010489 | 155 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 7 people were held in Holt County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 278 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 10.
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 Holt County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $4.2 million — $4 million to run schools, about $14,136 per student, plus $258,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.6 million local (mostly property tax), $1.5 million state, $687,000 federal.
Spent $5 million — $4.3 million to run schools, about $15,525 per student, plus $710,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.6 million local (mostly property tax), $1.4 million state, $596,000 federal.
Spent $2 million — $1.7 million to run schools, about $31,709 per student, plus $267,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.8 million local (mostly property tax), $417,000 state, $326,000 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 Holt County about $6.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
170 bridges in Holt County: 67 in good condition, 78 fair, and 25 poor (14.7%). “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.
| IS 29 N over LIT TARKIO CR · built 1972 | 8,637 vehicles a day |
| MO 118 E over IS 29 · built 1972 | 2,545 vehicles a day |
| RT A E over NODAWAY RVR · built 1963 | 2,103 vehicles a day |
| US 59 S over IS 29 · built 1972 | 1,008 vehicles a day |
| US 159 S over LIT TARKIO CR · built 1970 | 869 vehicles a day |
| MO 111 S over TARKIO RVR · built 1934 | 304 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $28 million of work in Holt County in fiscal 2025, about $6,620 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 Holt 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 Holt County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Doniphan County, KS (22 mi) · Andrew County (23 mi) · Nodaway County (25 mi) · Atchison County (26 mi) · Brown County, KS (26 mi) · Richardson County, NE (26 mi).