4,698 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.1% since 2020)
437 square miles of land · 11 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.
2 active community water systems list Scotland County in the area they serve, reporting 5,182 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| SCOTLAND COUNTY CONS PWSD 1 buys surface water · local government · MO2024565 | 3,360 served |
| MEMPHIS PWS surface water · local government · MO2010513 | 1,822 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 4 people were held in Scotland County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 146 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 3.
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.
1 school district has its office in Scotland County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $8.2 million — $7.7 million to run schools, about $14,086 per student, plus $474,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.2 million local (mostly property tax), $3.1 million state, $1.4 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Scotland County about $6.2 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
198 bridges in Scotland County: 73 in good condition, 117 fair, and 8 poor (4.0%). “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.
| RT B S over BR OF N FABIUS RVR · built 1949 | 242 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD 561 over CR BR TO N FABIUS · built 1900 | 30 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD 817 over N WYACONDA RVR · built 1998 | 25 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD 664 over TRIB TO N FABIUS R · built 1991 | 25 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD 803 over CR TO WYACONDA RVR · built 2001 | 25 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD 707 over BR TO LIT FOX RVR · built 1991 | 15 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $1.1 million of work in Scotland County in fiscal 2025, about $240 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 Scotland 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 Scotland County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Schuyler County (20 mi) · Knox County (21 mi) · Clark County (22 mi) · Van Buren County, IA (23 mi) · Davis County, IA (25 mi) · Adair County (30 mi).