303,952 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.6% since 2020)
539 square miles of land · 564 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.
15 active community water systems list Cleveland County in the area they serve, reporting 206,352 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| NORMAN UTILITIES AUTHORITY surface water · local government · OK1020801 | 104,868 served |
| MOORE PUBLIC WORKS AUTHORITY buys surface water · local government · OK2001412 | 55,083 served |
| OKLAHOMA UNIVERSITY buys surface water · state · OK3001414 | 34,000 served |
| NOBLE UTILITIES AUTHORITY groundwater · local government · OK2001411 | 5,750 served |
| JOSEPH HARP CORR INST groundwater · state · OK2001408 | 3,000 served |
| LEXINGTON groundwater · local government · OK2001409 | 2,086 served |
| SOONER UTILITIES - SLEEPY HOLLOW groundwater · private · OK5005560 | 438 served |
| SUNNYLANE ESTATES groundwater · private · OK2001446 | 300 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 473 people were held in Cleveland County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 229 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 478.
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.
6 school districts have their office in Cleveland County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $291.9 million — $238 million to run schools, about $9,662 per student, plus $50.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $120.5 million local (mostly property tax), $129.7 million state, $27.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $118.9 million.
Spent $182.9 million — $161.4 million to run schools, about $10,223 per student, plus $19.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $102.4 million local (mostly property tax), $78.1 million state, $22 million federal. Long-term debt: $104.4 million.
Spent $35.6 million — $31.4 million to run schools, about $10,357 per student, plus $4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $10.5 million local (mostly property tax), $19.2 million state, $5.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $5.6 million.
Spent $15.8 million — $14.1 million to run schools, about $12,020 per student, plus $1.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.9 million local (mostly property tax), $7.9 million state, $3.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $3 million.
Spent $10.9 million — $9.4 million to run schools, about $9,442 per student, plus $1.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.8 million local (mostly property tax), $6.8 million state, $2.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $699,000.
Spent $3.6 million — $3.1 million to run schools, about $8,739 per student, plus $506,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1 million local (mostly property tax), $2.1 million state, $452,000 federal. Long-term debt: $710,000.
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: Relatively Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Cleveland County about $111.9 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
315 bridges in Cleveland County: 141 in good condition, 160 fair, and 14 poor (4.4%). “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.
| SW 119TH ST. over CREEK · built 1979 | 10,900 vehicles a day |
| SW 119TH ST. over CREEK · built 1979 | 10,315 vehicles a day |
| S.H. 37 over I-44 UNDER · built 1964 | 8,900 vehicles a day |
| SW 119TH ST. over I-44 UNDER · built 1964 | 5,000 vehicles a day |
| SUNNYLANE RD over N FORK OF LITTLE RIVER · built 1950 | 3,100 vehicles a day |
| NE 12TH ST over CREEK · built 1950 | 3,000 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $255.3 million of work in Cleveland County in fiscal 2025, about $864 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 Cleveland 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 Cleveland County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: McClain County (15 mi) · Pottawatomie County (21 mi) · Oklahoma County (25 mi) · Grady County (34 mi) · Garvin County (34 mi) · Seminole County (41 mi).