28,438 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.7% since 2020)
823 square miles of land · 35 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 Stoddard County in the area they serve, reporting 22,643 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| DEXTER PWS groundwater · local government · MO4010216 | 8,200 served |
| STODDARD COUNTY PWSD 1 groundwater · local government · MO4024581 | 3,000 served |
| BLOOMFIELD PWS groundwater · local government · MO4010078 | 1,980 served |
| BERNIE PWS groundwater · local government · MO4010066 | 1,898 served |
| STODDARD COUNTY PWSD 4 groundwater · local government · MO4024584 | 1,530 served |
| ADVANCE PWS groundwater · local government · MO4010002 | 1,400 served |
| PUXICO PWS groundwater · local government · MO4010668 | 890 served |
| STODDARD COUNTY PWSD 6 buys groundwater · local government · MO4024586 | 840 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 74 people were held in Stoddard County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 416 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 47.
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.
7 school districts have their office in Stoddard County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $23.6 million — $20.7 million to run schools, about $10,154 per student, plus $1.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $10.3 million local (mostly property tax), $12 million state, $3.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $22.4 million.
Spent $9.3 million — $8.2 million to run schools, about $10,977 per student, plus $1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.6 million local (mostly property tax), $5 million state, $1.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.1 million.
Spent $7.1 million — $6.6 million to run schools, about $10,731 per student, plus $314,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.8 million local (mostly property tax), $3.5 million state, $1 million federal. Long-term debt: $2 million.
Spent $7.5 million — $5.9 million to run schools, about $11,583 per student, plus $1.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.1 million local (mostly property tax), $3.3 million state, $2.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $2.1 million.
Spent $5.5 million — $4.8 million to run schools, about $11,336 per student, plus $618,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2 million local (mostly property tax), $2.5 million state, $610,000 federal. Long-term debt: $3.7 million.
Spent $4.7 million — $4.1 million to run schools, about $15,300 per student, plus $468,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.7 million local (mostly property tax), $2.2 million state, $851,000 federal. Long-term debt: $750,000.
Spent $3.9 million — $3.7 million to run schools, about $18,357 per student, plus $252,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.6 million local (mostly property tax), $1.3 million state, $895,000 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 Stoddard County about $28.9 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
436 bridges in Stoddard County: 188 in good condition, 230 fair, and 18 poor (4.1%). “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 114 E over DEXTER CR · built 1934 | 2,605 vehicles a day |
| RT Y E over DRAIN DTCH #34 · built 1949 | 1,950 vehicles a day |
| RT O E over DRAIN DTCH #287 · built 1947 | 1,523 vehicles a day |
| MO 51 S over ST FRANCIS RVR · built 1929 | 1,302 vehicles a day |
| RT J E over CR · built 1935 | 1,027 vehicles a day |
| MO 114 E over DRAIN DTCH #5 · built 1931 | 873 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $5.4 million of work in Stoddard County in fiscal 2025, about $189 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 Stoddard 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 Stoddard County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: New Madrid County (24 mi) · Scott County (25 mi) · Butler County (27 mi) · Bollinger County (32 mi) · Wayne County (33 mi) · Mississippi County (36 mi).