36,738 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.9% since 2020)
765 square miles of land · 48 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.
6 active community water systems list Laclede County in the area they serve, reporting 31,385 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| LEBANON PWS groundwater · local government · MO5010458 | 15,442 served |
| LACLEDE COUNTY PWSD 1 groundwater · local government · MO5024317 | 8,550 served |
| LACLEDE COUNTY PWSD 3 groundwater · local government · MO5024319 | 6,075 served |
| CONWAY PWS groundwater · local government · MO5010185 | 788 served |
| LACLEDE COUNTY PWSD 2 groundwater · local government · MO5024318 | 510 served |
| PLAZA PARK ESTATES MHP groundwater · private · MO5046385 | 20 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 141 people were held in Laclede County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 633 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 100.
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.
4 school districts have their office in Laclede County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $64 million — $52.6 million to run schools, about $11,731 per student, plus $9.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $23.9 million local (mostly property tax), $30.9 million state, $7.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $31.6 million.
Spent $8.2 million — $7.8 million to run schools, about $9,492 per student, plus $290,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.5 million local (mostly property tax), $4.7 million state, $1.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $2 million.
Spent $6.5 million — $4.9 million to run schools, about $9,804 per student, plus $239,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.8 million local (mostly property tax), $4.9 million state, $1.9 million federal.
Spent $1.5 million — $1.1 million to run schools, about $14,456 per student, plus $12,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $564,000 local (mostly property tax), $769,000 state, $478,000 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: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Laclede County about $23.3 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
119 bridges in Laclede County: 40 in good condition, 68 fair, and 11 poor (9.2%). “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 44 W over GASCONADE RVR OVRF · built 1956 | 14,639 vehicles a day |
| MO 64 E over GOODWIN CR · built 1931 | 4,190 vehicles a day |
| RT J E over IS 44 · built 1967 | 3,902 vehicles a day |
| RT T S over BEAR CR · built 1938 | 924 vehicles a day |
| RT BB S over AUGLAIZE CR · built 1954 | 568 vehicles a day |
| OR 44 E over BEAR CR · built 1923 | 419 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $7.4 million of work in Laclede County in fiscal 2025, about $205 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 Laclede 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 Laclede County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Dallas County (24 mi) · Pulaski County (24 mi) · Camden County (27 mi) · Wright County (28 mi) · Webster County (30 mi) · Miller County (39 mi).