46,495 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.5% since 2020)
2,247 square miles of land · 21 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.
27 active community water systems list Osage County in the area they serve, reporting 33,416 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| SKIATOOK PWA surface water · local government · OK1021313 | 8,110 served |
| OSAGE CO RWD #15 buys surface water · local government · OK3005736 | 6,647 served |
| PAWHUSKA surface water · local government · OK1021301 | 3,800 served |
| HOMINY surface water · local government · OK1021306 | 2,584 served |
| MCCORD RWD #3 buys surface water · local government · OK3005747 | 1,800 served |
| FAIRFAX surface water · local government · OK1021204 | 1,555 served |
| OSAGE CO RWD #21 groundwater (surface-influenced) · local government · OK2003616 | 1,500 served |
| BARNSDALL surface water · local government · OK1021304 | 1,243 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 129 people were held in Osage County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 456 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 134.
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.
12 school districts have their office in Osage County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $10.7 million — $9.8 million to run schools, about $14,080 per student, plus $858,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.3 million local (mostly property tax), $4.6 million state, $2.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.4 million.
Spent $7.7 million — $6.6 million to run schools, about $12,491 per student, plus $1.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.3 million local (mostly property tax), $3.9 million state, $1.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.7 million.
Spent $5.6 million — $4.5 million to run schools, about $10,329 per student, plus $1.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.2 million local (mostly property tax), $2.5 million state, $796,000 federal. Long-term debt: $541,000.
Spent $5.2 million — $5.2 million to run schools, about $13,528 per student, plus $81,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.7 million local (mostly property tax), $3 million state, $959,000 federal. Long-term debt: $150,000.
Spent $3 million — $2.7 million to run schools, about $8,661 per student, plus $251,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1 million local (mostly property tax), $1.7 million state, $333,000 federal. Long-term debt: $736,000.
Spent $4 million — $3.1 million to run schools, about $10,589 per student, plus $873,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.5 million local (mostly property tax), $1.5 million state, $859,000 federal. Long-term debt: $620,000.
Spent $3.6 million — $2.8 million to run schools, about $10,537 per student, plus $745,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.8 million local (mostly property tax), $916,000 state, $835,000 federal. Long-term debt: $1.1 million.
Spent $4.8 million — $3.3 million to run schools, about $15,713 per student, plus $1.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.9 million local (mostly property tax), $1.2 million state, $586,000 federal. Long-term debt: $2.4 million.
And 4 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 Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Osage County about $27.6 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.
368 bridges in Osage County: 135 in good condition, 167 fair, and 66 poor (17.9%). “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.
| N3730 over MUD CREEK · built 1912 | 832 vehicles a day |
| FAS 5722 over BIRD CREEK · built 1986 | 592 vehicles a day |
| N3705 over CREEK · built 1945 | 416 vehicles a day |
| 5710C (SHELL CR RD over SHELL CREEK LAKE · built 1922 | 400 vehicles a day |
| FAS 5748 over RUSH CREEK · built 1923 | 309 vehicles a day |
| IRR D3676 over BLACKBIRD CREEK · built 1940 | 300 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $58.7 million of work in Osage County in fiscal 2025, about $1,281 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 Osage 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 Osage County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Pawnee County (27 mi) · Washington County (28 mi) · Chautauqua County, KS (38 mi) · Kay County (43 mi) · Tulsa County (43 mi) · Nowata County (45 mi).