19,710 people (2024 Census estimate, +4.0% since 2020)
618 square miles of land · 32 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.
11 active community water systems list McIntosh County in the area they serve, reporting 19,184 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MCINTOSH CO. RWD #8 (TEXANNA) surface water · local government · OK1020529 | 3,574 served |
| CHECOTAH PWA surface water · local government · OK1020515 | 3,481 served |
| MCINTOSH CO. RWS & SWMD #2 (ONAPA) surface water · local government · OK1020535 | 2,774 served |
| EUFAULA PWA surface water · local government · OK1020514 | 2,766 served |
| MCINTOSH CO. RWD #5 buys surface water · local government · OK3004939 | 1,900 served |
| MCINTOSH CO. RWS & SWMD #9 buys surface water · local government · OK3004907 | 1,761 served |
| MCINTOSH CO. RWD #6 (VIVIAN) groundwater · local government · OK2004913 | 1,500 served |
| MCINTOSH CO. RWD #3 (VICTOR) buys surface water · local government · OK3004903 | 920 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 95 people were held in McIntosh County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 832 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 114.
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 McIntosh County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $20.4 million — $18.1 million to run schools, about $12,447 per student, plus $2.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.4 million local (mostly property tax), $8.2 million state, $5.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $2 million.
Spent $15.1 million — $13.3 million to run schools, about $11,253 per student, plus $1.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.5 million local (mostly property tax), $7.4 million state, $4 million federal. Long-term debt: $570,000.
Spent $1.1 million — $1.1 million to run schools, about $10,187 per student, plus $18,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $198,000 local (mostly property tax), $764,000 state, $388,000 federal.
Spent $1.2 million — $1.2 million to run schools, about $15,933 per student, plus $10,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $70,000 local (mostly property tax), $616,000 state, $575,000 federal.
Spent $1.2 million — $1.2 million to run schools, about $22,436 per student. Money in: $320,000 local (mostly property tax), $386,000 state, $627,000 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 McIntosh County about $14 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
200 bridges in McIntosh County: 54 in good condition, 132 fair, and 14 poor (7.0%). “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.
| S.H. 9 over WALLACE CREEK · built 1937 | 1,300 vehicles a day |
| 4606C over ELK CREEK · built 1968 | 300 vehicles a day |
| E1010 over GENTRY CREEK · built 1911 | 100 vehicles a day |
| E1159 over CREEK · built 1939 | 100 vehicles a day |
| E1190 over WALLACE CREEK · built 1940 | 100 vehicles a day |
| N4010 over CREEK · built 1940 | 100 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $3.3 million of work in McIntosh County in fiscal 2025, about $175 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 McIntosh 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 McIntosh County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Muskogee County (24 mi) · Okmulgee County (25 mi) · Pittsburg County (31 mi) · Haskell County (33 mi) · Okfuskee County (38 mi) · Hughes County (39 mi).