40,144 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.8% since 2020)
655 square miles of land · 61 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.
20 active community water systems list Mayes County in the area they serve, reporting 44,332 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| PRYOR buys surface water · local government · OK3004611 | 8,784 served |
| MAYES CO RWD # 2 buys surface water · local government · OK3004608 | 6,280 served |
| MAYES CO RWD #4 buys surface water · local government · OK3004617 | 4,183 served |
| OKLA ORDNANCE WORKS AUTHORITY surface water · state · OK1021602 | 4,000 served |
| MAYES CO RWD # 6 surface water · local government · OK1021666 | 3,750 served |
| MAYES CO RWD # 5 buys surface water · local government · OK3004616 | 3,360 served |
| MAYES CO RWD # 9 surface water · local government · OK1021678 | 2,578 served |
| MAYES CO RWD # 3 surface water · local government · OK1021640 | 2,400 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 93 people were held in Mayes County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 376 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 115.
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.
7 school districts have their office in Mayes County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $57.7 million — $44.6 million to run schools, about $15,584 per student, plus $11.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $56.5 million local (mostly property tax), $5.9 million state, $5.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $28.7 million.
Spent $17.2 million — $15.7 million to run schools, about $13,026 per student, plus $1.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.6 million local (mostly property tax), $8 million state, $2.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $895,000.
Spent $15.6 million — $11.5 million to run schools, about $11,045 per student, plus $3.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5 million local (mostly property tax), $6.8 million state, $2.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $3 million.
Spent $14.5 million — $14.2 million to run schools, about $17,279 per student, plus $247,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5 million local (mostly property tax), $7.7 million state, $2.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $3.6 million.
Spent $11.4 million — $10.7 million to run schools, about $13,958 per student, plus $598,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.9 million local (mostly property tax), $4.8 million state, $2.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.8 million.
Spent $1.8 million — $1.6 million to run schools, about $13,814 per student, plus $9,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.4 million local (mostly property tax), $258,000 state, $275,000 federal. Long-term debt: $1.9 million.
Spent $1.3 million — $1.2 million to run schools, about $12,704 per student, plus $20,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $323,000 local (mostly property tax), $721,000 state, $493,000 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 Mayes County about $26.2 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.
233 bridges in Mayes County: 92 in good condition, 111 fair, and 30 poor (12.9%). “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.
| FAS 4907 over TRIB OF NEOSHO RIVER · built 1940 | 3,219 vehicles a day |
| N4400 over CREEK · built 1950 | 950 vehicles a day |
| 4950C over WOLF CREEK · built 1960 | 840 vehicles a day |
| 4948C over CREEK · built 1920 | 625 vehicles a day |
| N4420 over CREEK · built 1948 | 600 vehicles a day |
| FAS 4918 over PRYOR CREEK · built 1948 | 500 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $38.2 million of work in Mayes County in fiscal 2025, about $978 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 Mayes 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 Mayes County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Rogers County (21 mi) · Delaware County (25 mi) · Wagoner County (28 mi) · Cherokee County (31 mi) · Craig County (32 mi) · Nowata County (40 mi).