10,896 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.2% since 2020)
732 square miles of land · 15 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 Noble County in the area they serve, reporting 10,311 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| PERRY WATER & LIGHT DEPT surface water · local government · OK1021206 | 5,230 served |
| NOBLE COUNTY RWD #2 buys surface water · local government · OK3005203 | 2,100 served |
| MORRISON PUBLIC WORKS AUTH. buys surface water · local government · OK3005205 | 950 served |
| BILLINGS PWA groundwater · local government · OK2005201 | 436 served |
| NOBLE CO RWD #1 (LUCIEN) buys groundwater · local government · OK1021205 | 335 served |
| MARLAND groundwater · local government · OK2005204 | 325 served |
| RED ROCK buys surface water · local government · OK2005202 | 293 served |
| OTOE-MISSOURIA TRIBE surface water · tribal · OK1021222 | 250 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 13 people were held in Noble County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 199 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 19.
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.
4 school districts have their office in Noble County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $13.5 million — $11.5 million to run schools, about $11,372 per student, plus $1.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.3 million local (mostly property tax), $4.7 million state, $1.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $900,000.
Spent $8.1 million — $7 million to run schools, about $11,589 per student, plus $1.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.9 million local (mostly property tax), $3 million state, $1.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.3 million.
Spent $11.8 million — $9.2 million to run schools, about $26,912 per student, plus $2.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.6 million local (mostly property tax), $1.2 million state, $1.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.2 million.
Spent $2 million — $1.9 million to run schools, about $31,763 per student, plus $79,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.7 million local (mostly property tax), $303,000 state, $145,000 federal. Long-term debt: $60,000.
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 Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Noble County about $9.7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
342 bridges in Noble County: 117 in good condition, 213 fair, and 12 poor (3.5%). “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.
| E0480 over ELM CREEK · built 1954 | 150 vehicles a day |
| N3260 over WILLOW CREEK · built 1948 | 75 vehicles a day |
| N3370 over LONG BRANCH CREEK · built 1931 | 75 vehicles a day |
| E0570 over CREEK · built 1942 | 50 vehicles a day |
| N3160 over DEAN CREEK · built 1994 | 50 vehicles a day |
| E0570 over STILLWATER CREEK · built 1945 | 50 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $17.1 million of work in Noble County in fiscal 2025, about $1,562 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 Noble 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 Noble County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Payne County (26 mi) · Kay County (30 mi) · Pawnee County (30 mi) · Garfield County (31 mi) · Logan County (35 mi) · Grant County (41 mi).