14,658 people (2024 Census estimate, +4.8% since 2020)
532 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.
8 active community water systems list Livingston County in the area they serve, reporting 19,091 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CHILLICOTHE MUNICIPAL UTILITIES PWS groundwater · local government · MO2010162 | 10,187 served |
| LIVINGSTON COUNTY PWSD 2 groundwater · local government · MO2024353 | 2,215 served |
| LIVINGSTON COUNTY PWSD 3 EAST buys groundwater · local government · MO2024354 | 2,087 served |
| LIVINGSTON COUNTY PWSD 4 groundwater · local government · MO2024355 | 1,507 served |
| LINN LIVINGSTON COUNTY PWSD 3 groundwater · local government · MO2024350 | 1,350 served |
| LIVINGSTON COUNTY PWSD 1 buys groundwater · local government · MO2024352 | 1,320 served |
| WHEELING PWS buys groundwater · local government · MO2010857 | 223 served |
| CHULA PWS buys groundwater · local government · MO2010163 | 202 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 39 people were held in Livingston County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 450 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2012 it was about 43.
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 Livingston County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $25.9 million — $20.7 million to run schools, about $11,451 per student, plus $3.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $12.5 million local (mostly property tax), $10.7 million state, $3.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $23.4 million.
Spent $2.5 million — $2.2 million to run schools, about $12,103 per student, plus $179,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $925,000 local (mostly property tax), $1.4 million state, $426,000 federal.
Spent $1.3 million — $1.1 million to run schools, about $15,135 per student, plus $21,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $588,000 local (mostly property tax), $695,000 state, $319,000 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 Livingston County about $9.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
185 bridges in Livingston County: 70 in good condition, 97 fair, and 18 poor (9.7%). “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.
| RT D S over SHOAL CR DRAIN DTC · built 1954 | 614 vehicles a day |
| RT DD E over SHOAL CR DRAIN DTC · built 1957 | 352 vehicles a day |
| RT K S over N FK CROOKED CR · built 1932 | 227 vehicles a day |
| RYAN LN over IMRL RR · built 1920 | 200 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD 430 over MOUND CR · built 1960 | 50 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD 519 over S FK GEES CR · built 1960 | 30 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $955,117 of work in Livingston County in fiscal 2025, about $66 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 Livingston 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 Livingston County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Grundy County (23 mi) · Linn County (24 mi) · Caldwell County (24 mi) · Carroll County (24 mi) · Daviess County (26 mi) · Chariton County (36 mi).