22,399 people (2024 Census estimate, +6.7% since 2020)
598 square miles of land · 37 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.
15 active community water systems list Morgan County in the area they serve, reporting 7,941 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| VERSAILLES PWS groundwater · local government · MO3010819 | 2,539 served |
| MORGAN COUNTY PWSD # 2 groundwater · local government · MO3031358 | 1,298 served |
| STOVER PWS groundwater · local government · MO3010767 | 1,094 served |
| LAURIE PWS groundwater · local government · MO3024413 | 990 served |
| MILLSTONE LUXURY CONDOMINIUMS groundwater · private · MO5301457 | 400 served |
| TIMBERLAKE MASTER ASSN INC groundwater · private · MO3031365 | 300 served |
| BLUE ANCHOR BAY CONDOMINIUMS groundwater · private · MO5301489 | 250 served |
| BARNETT PWS groundwater · local government · MO3010047 | 207 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 67 people were held in Morgan County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 544 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 18.
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 Morgan County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $16.7 million — $15.7 million to run schools, about $12,142 per student, plus $817,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $10.7 million local (mostly property tax), $4.3 million state, $5.3 million federal.
Spent $10.1 million — $9 million to run schools, about $10,811 per student, plus $808,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.9 million local (mostly property tax), $5.5 million state, $2 million 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 Morgan County about $21.7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
107 bridges in Morgan County: 31 in good condition, 60 fair, and 16 poor (15.0%). “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 5 S over GRAVOIS CREEK · built 1963 | 6,024 vehicles a day |
| MO 135 S over FLAT CREEK · built 1966 | 654 vehicles a day |
| HOPEWELL RD over BURRIS FK · built 1930 | 500 vehicles a day |
| MCCASLAND RD over GRAVOIS CR · built 1984 | 100 vehicles a day |
| TROUTDALE RD over SPRING BR · built 1930 | 100 vehicles a day |
| ANGEL RD over TRIB TO RICHLAND C · built 1930 | 100 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $-457,616 of work in Morgan County in fiscal 2025, about $-22 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 Morgan 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 Morgan County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Moniteau County (21 mi) · Benton County (24 mi) · Camden County (28 mi) · Miller County (28 mi) · Cooper County (30 mi) · Pettis County (31 mi).