22,248 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.4% since 2020)
902 square miles of land · 25 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 Beckham County in the area they serve, reporting 20,527 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| ELK CITY groundwater · local government · OK2000501 | 10,510 served |
| SAYRE groundwater · local government · OK2000508 | 4,375 served |
| BECKHAM CO RWD # 3 groundwater · local government · OK2000547 | 1,617 served |
| BECKHAM CO RWD # 1 groundwater · local government · OK2000505 | 1,595 served |
| ERICK groundwater · local government · OK2000502 | 1,023 served |
| BECKHAM CO RWD # 2 groundwater · local government · OK2000510 | 857 served |
| CARTER buys groundwater · local government · OK3000501 | 330 served |
| POTTERS TRAILER PARK groundwater · private · OK2000511 | 150 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 89 people were held in Beckham County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 622 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 80.
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 Beckham County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $24.1 million — $20.7 million to run schools, about $9,839 per student, plus $3.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.6 million local (mostly property tax), $11.9 million state, $4.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.5 million.
Spent $10.4 million — $8.6 million to run schools, about $10,432 per student, plus $1.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.2 million local (mostly property tax), $4.6 million state, $1.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.4 million.
Spent $9.6 million — $8 million to run schools, about $11,504 per student, plus $1.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.3 million local (mostly property tax), $2.4 million state, $1.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.8 million.
Spent $3.2 million — $2.9 million to run schools, about $13,746 per student, plus $322,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $942,000 local (mostly property tax), $1.6 million state, $413,000 federal. Long-term debt: $351,000.
Spent $3.7 million — $3.5 million to run schools, about $28,746 per student, plus $167,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.2 million local (mostly property tax), $917,000 state, $266,000 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 Beckham County about $13 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.
313 bridges in Beckham County: 223 in good condition, 89 fair, and 1 poor (0.3%). “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.
| E1250 over CREEK · built 1905 | 25 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $5.3 million of work in Beckham County in fiscal 2025, about $236 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 Beckham 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 Beckham County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Greer County (24 mi) · Roger Mills County (30 mi) · Wheeler County, TX (33 mi) · Harmon County (37 mi) · Collingsworth County, TX (39 mi) · Washita County (39 mi).