19,505 people (2024 Census estimate, +7.1% since 2020)
682 square miles of land · 29 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.
7 active community water systems list Wright County in the area they serve, reporting 7,940 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MOUNTAIN GROVE PWS groundwater · local government · MO5010550 | 4,789 served |
| MANSFIELD PWS groundwater · local government · MO5010493 | 1,193 served |
| NORWOOD PWS groundwater · local government · MO5010585 | 665 served |
| HARTVILLE PWS groundwater · local government · MO5010351 | 655 served |
| WRIGHT COUNTY PWSD 1 groundwater · local government · MO5024650 | 483 served |
| MISSOURI RV PARK groundwater · private · MO5048174 | 90 served |
| SHADY OAK MHP groundwater · private · MO5048231 | 65 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 Wright County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 359 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 39.
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.
5 school districts have their office in Wright County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $18.1 million — $16.8 million to run schools, about $10,452 per student, plus $1.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.2 million local (mostly property tax), $9.7 million state, $6.2 million federal.
Spent $11.6 million — $7.7 million to run schools, about $11,356 per student, plus $3.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.5 million local (mostly property tax), $4.8 million state, $5.6 million federal.
Spent $8.4 million — $7.7 million to run schools, about $12,963 per student, plus $635,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.2 million local (mostly property tax), $4.3 million state, $3.3 million federal.
Spent $4.9 million — $4.6 million to run schools, about $13,933 per student, plus $255,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.4 million local (mostly property tax), $2.8 million state, $1 million federal.
Spent $1.2 million — $1.1 million to run schools, about $23,468 per student, plus $29,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $281,000 local (mostly property tax), $654,000 state, $749,000 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 Wright County about $13.3 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.
131 bridges in Wright County: 29 in good condition, 87 fair, and 15 poor (11.5%). “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 BNSF RR · built 1958 | 5,340 vehicles a day |
| MO 5 N over US 60 · built 1985 | 3,130 vehicles a day |
| MO 5 S over WOODS FK · built 1931 | 2,170 vehicles a day |
| RT U S over CST SOUTH ST BNSF RR · built 1930 | 1,764 vehicles a day |
| RT M E over PARKS CR · built 1950 | 888 vehicles a day |
| RT N E over WHETSTONE CR · built 1968 | 730 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $8.3 million of work in Wright County in fiscal 2025, about $455 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 Wright 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 Wright County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Webster County (22 mi) · Douglas County (22 mi) · Laclede County (28 mi) · Texas County (28 mi) · Pulaski County (41 mi) · Dallas County (42 mi).