53,964 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.1% since 2020)
547 square miles of land · 99 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.
16 active community water systems list Pulaski County in the area they serve, reporting 63,819 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| FORT LEONARD WOOD surface water · federal · MO3079500 | 34,000 served |
| PULASKI COUNTY PWSD 2 groundwater · local government · MO3024491 | 8,038 served |
| WAYNESVILLE PWS groundwater · local government · MO3010841 | 5,460 served |
| ST ROBERT PWS groundwater · local government · MO3010720 | 5,192 served |
| PULASKI COUNTY PWSD 1 groundwater · local government · MO3024490 | 4,000 served |
| RICHLAND PWS groundwater · local government · MO3010684 | 1,863 served |
| DIXON PWS groundwater · local government · MO3010219 | 1,221 served |
| PULASKI COUNTY PWSD 3 groundwater · local government · MO3024492 | 1,113 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 50 people were held in Pulaski County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 128 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 72.
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.
6 school districts have their office in Pulaski County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $89.4 million — $73 million to run schools, about $11,863 per student, plus $14.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $16.6 million local (mostly property tax), $45.4 million state, $32.5 million federal.
Spent $11.8 million — $9.4 million to run schools, about $10,468 per student, plus $2.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.3 million local (mostly property tax), $5.5 million state, $2.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $2.6 million.
Spent $9.3 million — $8.1 million to run schools, about $10,218 per student, plus $735,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2 million local (mostly property tax), $6.2 million state, $1.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $175,000.
Spent $7.4 million — $6.8 million to run schools, about $12,101 per student, plus $414,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.7 million local (mostly property tax), $3.9 million state, $2.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $2.3 million.
Spent $7.8 million — $5.8 million to run schools, about $12,555 per student, plus $1.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.9 million local (mostly property tax), $3.5 million state, $2.5 million federal.
Spent $679,000 — $566,000 to run schools, about $14,895 per student, plus $38,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $299,000 local (mostly property tax), $472,000 state, $144,000 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 Pulaski County about $29 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
104 bridges in Pulaski County: 22 in good condition, 72 fair, and 10 poor (9.6%). “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 H S over ROUBIDOUX CR · built 1955 | 7,296 vehicles a day |
| RT T S over GASCONADE RVR · built 1973 | 4,448 vehicles a day |
| MO 7 S over IS 44 · built 1977 | 2,201 vehicles a day |
| CAVE RD over BNSF RR · built 1902 | 150 vehicles a day |
| TEAR DROP RD over BIG PINEY RVR · built 1923 | 100 vehicles a day |
| ROSEBUD RD over BR GASCONADE RVR · built 1940 | 50 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $50.2 million of work in Pulaski County in fiscal 2025, about $930 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 Pulaski 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 Pulaski County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Phelps County (23 mi) · Laclede County (24 mi) · Maries County (28 mi) · Miller County (30 mi) · Camden County (33 mi) · Texas County (38 mi).