121,396 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.2% since 2020)
1,069 square miles of land · 114 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.
23 active community water systems list Comanche County in the area they serve, reporting 137,212 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| LAWTON surface water · local government · OK1011303 | 92,757 served |
| FORT SILL HQUSAFACFS buys surface water · federal · OK3001601 | 23,000 served |
| ELGIN PWA groundwater · local government · OK2001610 | 3,300 served |
| COMANCHE CO RWD #4 buys surface water · local government · OK3001654 | 3,000 served |
| COMANCHE CO RWD #1 buys surface water · local government · OK3001602 | 2,800 served |
| CACHE groundwater · local government · OK2001607 | 2,371 served |
| COMANCHE CO RWD #3 buys surface water · local government · OK2001602 | 2,325 served |
| COMANCHE CO RWD #2 groundwater · local government · OK2001604 | 1,840 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 23 people were held in Comanche County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 29 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 401.
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.
10 school districts have their office in Comanche County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $178.6 million — $161.1 million to run schools, about $11,526 per student, plus $16.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $42.7 million local (mostly property tax), $94.9 million state, $33 million federal. Long-term debt: $32.1 million.
Spent $27.2 million — $23.2 million to run schools, about $9,264 per student, plus $3.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8.6 million local (mostly property tax), $14.4 million state, $4 million federal. Long-term debt: $3.1 million.
Spent $25.5 million — $24.4 million to run schools, about $11,592 per student, plus $980,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $12.5 million local (mostly property tax), $12.2 million state, $4 million federal. Long-term debt: $7.3 million.
Spent $5.4 million — $5 million to run schools, about $8,716 per student, plus $454,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.6 million local (mostly property tax), $3.5 million state, $1.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $930,000.
Spent $5.2 million — $4.9 million to run schools, about $10,486 per student, plus $221,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.2 million local (mostly property tax), $3.4 million state, $1 million federal. Long-term debt: $490,000.
Spent $4 million — $2.9 million to run schools, about $8,346 per student, plus $1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.1 million local (mostly property tax), $2 million state, $1.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $500,000.
Spent $4.7 million — $3.7 million to run schools, about $10,758 per student, plus $956,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.5 million local (mostly property tax), $2.1 million state, $863,000 federal. Long-term debt: $920,000.
Spent $4.6 million — $4.1 million to run schools, about $12,439 per student, plus $463,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.1 million local (mostly property tax), $2.5 million state, $542,000 federal. Long-term debt: $100,000.
And 2 more.
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 Comanche County about $50.8 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.
594 bridges in Comanche County: 199 in good condition, 342 fair, and 53 poor (8.9%). “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.
| FAU 7681 (SHERIDAN over NUMU CREEK · built 1942 | 14,994 vehicles a day |
| FAU 7740 (GORE BLV over WOLF CREEK · built 1977 | 13,970 vehicles a day |
| FAU 7701 over WOLF CREEK · built 1933 | 3,450 vehicles a day |
| FAU 7701 over WOLF CREEK OFLOW · built 1933 | 3,440 vehicles a day |
| STATE HWY 49 over TURKEY CREEK · built 1992 | 1,250 vehicles a day |
| 1678C over WEST CACHE CREEK · built 1958 | 1,012 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $91.6 million of work in Comanche County in fiscal 2025, about $756 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 Comanche 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 Comanche County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Cotton County (26 mi) · Tillman County (33 mi) · Kiowa County (34 mi) · Caddo County (35 mi) · Stephens County (37 mi) · Grady County (42 mi).