4,123 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.3% since 2020)
1,001 square miles of land · 4 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.
10 active community water systems list Grant County in the area they serve, reporting 4,090 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MEDFORD groundwater · local government · OK2002704 | 1,172 served |
| POND CREEK groundwater · local government · OK2002702 | 982 served |
| LAMONT groundwater (surface-influenced) · local government · OK2002705 | 417 served |
| R&C WATER CORP buys groundwater · local government · OK3002703 | 400 served |
| WAKITA groundwater · local government · OK2002706 | 344 served |
| NASH groundwater · local government · OK2002701 | 224 served |
| SW WATER INC buys groundwater · local government · OK3002706 | 200 served |
| DEER CREEK groundwater · local government · OK2002711 | 147 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 17 people were held in Grant County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 709 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 26.
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.
3 school districts have their office in Grant County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $6.1 million — $5.4 million to run schools, about $16,972 per student, plus $633,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.3 million local (mostly property tax), $1.2 million state, $498,000 federal. Long-term debt: $2.5 million.
Spent $7.4 million — $7.3 million to run schools, about $22,931 per student. Money in: $7.7 million local (mostly property tax), $1.4 million state, $361,000 federal. Long-term debt: $9.4 million.
Spent $3.4 million — $2.9 million to run schools, about $24,496 per student, plus $501,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.5 million local (mostly property tax), $546,000 state, $303,000 federal. Long-term debt: $1.3 million.
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 Grant County about $7.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
477 bridges in Grant County: 138 in good condition, 308 fair, and 31 poor (6.5%). “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.
| N2920 over CREEK · built 1995 | 450 vehicles a day |
| N3020 over POLECAT CREEK · built 1930 | 100 vehicles a day |
| E0250 over CREEK · built 1950 | 100 vehicles a day |
| N3020 over CREEK · built 1951 | 100 vehicles a day |
| E0260 over CREEK · built 1936 | 75 vehicles a day |
| E0250 over CREEK · built 1987 | 75 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $4.4 million of work in Grant County in fiscal 2025, about $1,055 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 Grant 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 Grant County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Garfield County (28 mi) · Alfalfa County (30 mi) · Harper County, KS (32 mi) · Sumner County, KS (35 mi) · Kay County (36 mi) · Noble County (41 mi).