43,395 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.9% since 2020)
1,306 square miles of land · 33 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.
22 active community water systems list Pittsburg County in the area they serve, reporting 50,811 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MCALESTER PWA surface water · local government · OK1020609 | 18,206 served |
| LONGTOWN RW&SD #1 (PITTSBURG CO.) surface water · local government · OK1020623 | 5,444 served |
| ADAMSON RWD #8 buys surface water · local government · OK3006112 | 4,221 served |
| HARTSHORNE buys surface water · local government · OK3006101 | 2,300 served |
| PITTSBURG CO. PWA (CROWDER) surface water · local government · OK1020603 | 2,203 served |
| KREBS UTILITY AUTHORITY surface water · local government · OK1020606 | 2,051 served |
| PITTSBURG CO. RWD #7 (ARPELAR) buys surface water · local government · OK3006108 | 2,040 served |
| INDIANOLA RWD #18 buys surface water · local government · OK3006110 | 2,000 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 166 people were held in Pittsburg County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 624 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 91.
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.
14 school districts have their office in Pittsburg County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $40.8 million — $39.4 million to run schools, about $13,325 per student, plus $1.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $10.2 million local (mostly property tax), $19.6 million state, $10.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.3 million.
Spent $11.4 million — $10 million to run schools, about $14,155 per student, plus $1.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.2 million local (mostly property tax), $5.1 million state, $4.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $748,000.
Spent $5.1 million — $4.9 million to run schools, about $9,868 per student, plus $144,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.8 million local (mostly property tax), $2.6 million state, $1.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $1 million.
Spent $5.5 million — $5.4 million to run schools, about $12,053 per student, plus $57,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.5 million local (mostly property tax), $2.3 million state, $1.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $875,000.
Spent $6 million — $5.5 million to run schools, about $13,949 per student, plus $518,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.9 million local (mostly property tax), $2.8 million state, $1.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $2.1 million.
Spent $4.5 million — $4.1 million to run schools, about $10,458 per student, plus $392,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.6 million local (mostly property tax), $2 million state, $909,000 federal. Long-term debt: $152,000.
Spent $4.4 million — $4.4 million to run schools, about $12,533 per student. Money in: $1 million local (mostly property tax), $3 million state, $911,000 federal. Long-term debt: $115,000.
Spent $4.5 million — $4.4 million to run schools, about $13,243 per student, plus $52,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.5 million local (mostly property tax), $2.3 million state, $788,000 federal. Long-term debt: $326,000.
And 6 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 Pittsburg County about $22 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.
411 bridges in Pittsburg County: 194 in good condition, 185 fair, and 32 poor (7.8%). “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.
| IND. NATION TP over CREEK · built 1968 | 3,800 vehicles a day |
| C-TREE ROAD over PEACEABLE CREEK · built 1943 | 2,500 vehicles a day |
| FAS 6105 over CREEK · built 1943 | 475 vehicles a day |
| FAS 6105 over EAST KREBS CREEK · built 1943 | 475 vehicles a day |
| 6168C over CREEK · built 1938 | 250 vehicles a day |
| FAS 6126 over SASSAFRAS CREEK · built 1943 | 200 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $20.7 million of work in Pittsburg County in fiscal 2025, about $474 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 Pittsburg 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 Pittsburg County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Latimer County (27 mi) · Hughes County (30 mi) · McIntosh County (31 mi) · Coal County (39 mi) · Atoka County (40 mi) · Haskell County (42 mi).