5,712 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.0% since 2020)
867 square miles of land · 7 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.
9 active community water systems list Alfalfa County in the area they serve, reporting 4,446 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CHEROKEE groundwater (surface-influenced) · local government · OK2000208 | 1,630 served |
| ALFALFA CO RWS & SWMD #1 NORTH groundwater · local government · OK2000201 | 600 served |
| ALFALFA CO RWS & SWMD #1 groundwater · local government · OK2000202 | 550 served |
| HELENA groundwater · local government · OK2000210 | 443 served |
| CARMEN PUBLIC WORKS AUTHORITY groundwater · local government · OK2000207 | 355 served |
| GOLTRY buys groundwater · local government · OK2000203 | 268 served |
| JET groundwater · local government · OK2000211 | 230 served |
| ALINE, TOWN OF groundwater · local government · OK2000206 | 214 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 7 people were held in Alfalfa County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 193 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 6.
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.
4 school districts have their office in Alfalfa County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $6.7 million — $5.5 million to run schools, about $13,679 per student, plus $1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.6 million local (mostly property tax), $3.6 million state, $809,000 federal. Long-term debt: $1.3 million.
Spent $6.6 million — $4.6 million to run schools, about $16,797 per student, plus $1.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.7 million local (mostly property tax), $1.8 million state, $476,000 federal. Long-term debt: $3.8 million.
Spent $3.9 million — $3.2 million to run schools, about $24,067 per student, plus $472,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.8 million local (mostly property tax), $1.1 million state, $235,000 federal.
Spent $2.8 million — $2.3 million to run schools, about $21,689 per student, plus $495,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.6 million local (mostly property tax), $785,000 state, $245,000 federal. Long-term debt: $872,000.
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 Alfalfa County about $10.1 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
387 bridges in Alfalfa County: 106 in good condition, 258 fair, and 23 poor (5.9%). “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.
| E0210 (0218C) over EAST CLAY CREEK · built 1999 | 120 vehicles a day |
| N2700 over TURKEY CREEK · built 1936 | 100 vehicles a day |
| E0360 over TURKEY CREEK TRIB. · built 1938 | 100 vehicles a day |
| E0060 over CREEK · built 1939 | 100 vehicles a day |
| E0140 over CREEK · built 1941 | 100 vehicles a day |
| E0260 over EAGLE CHIEF CREEK TRIB. · built 1946 | 100 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $8.7 million of work in Alfalfa County in fiscal 2025, about $1,532 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 Oklahoma 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 Alfalfa 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 Alfalfa County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Woods County (30 mi) · Grant County (30 mi) · Major County (31 mi) · Harper County, KS (35 mi) · Garfield County (38 mi) · Barber County, KS (39 mi).