10,800 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.1% since 2020)
1,396 square miles of land · 8 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.
7 active community water systems list Pushmataha County in the area they serve, reporting 11,282 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| PUSHMATAHA CO. RWD #3 surface water · local government · OK1010318 | 4,825 served |
| ANTLERS PWA surface water · local government · OK1010302 | 2,547 served |
| PUSHMATAHA CO. RWD #1 buys surface water · local government · OK3006403 | 1,200 served |
| PUSHMATAHA CO. RWD #2 (ALBION) buys surface water · local government · OK3006402 | 959 served |
| PUSHMATAHA CO. RWD #5 (NASHOBA) buys surface water · local government · OK3006410 | 725 served |
| CLAYTON PWA buys surface water · local government · OK3006408 | 719 served |
| SARDIS LAKE WATER AUTHORITY surface water · local government · OK1010319 | 307 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 25 people were held in Pushmataha County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 387 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 63.
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 Pushmataha County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $10.9 million — $10.4 million to run schools, about $10,821 per student, plus $423,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.3 million local (mostly property tax), $6.6 million state, $2.5 million federal.
Spent $6.1 million — $5.9 million to run schools, about $12,627 per student, plus $157,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $975,000 local (mostly property tax), $4 million state, $1.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $34,000.
Spent $4.3 million — $4.2 million to run schools, about $19,502 per student, plus $138,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $892,000 local (mostly property tax), $2.2 million state, $1.1 million federal.
Spent $2.5 million — $2.3 million to run schools, about $12,197 per student, plus $150,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $404,000 local (mostly property tax), $1.6 million state, $511,000 federal. Long-term debt: $20,000.
Spent $1.1 million — $1 million to run schools, about $14,123 per student, plus $49,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $240,000 local (mostly property tax), $541,000 state, $391,000 federal.
Spent $1.2 million — $1.1 million to run schools, about $23,830 per student, plus $65,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $907,000 local (mostly property tax), $125,000 state, $241,000 federal.
Spent $782,000 — $760,000 to run schools, about $16,522 per student, plus $2,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $220,000 local (mostly property tax), $310,000 state, $428,000 federal. Long-term debt: $40,000.
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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Pushmataha County about $6.3 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.
246 bridges in Pushmataha County: 156 in good condition, 80 fair, and 10 poor (4.1%). “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.
| 6428C over TURKEY CREEK · built 1935 | 100 vehicles a day |
| 6410C over CREEK · built 1937 | 100 vehicles a day |
| IRR FAS 6415 over CREEK · built 1938 | 100 vehicles a day |
| IRR FAS 6416 over CREEK · built 1940 | 100 vehicles a day |
| 6418C over LITTLE RIVER · built 1940 | 100 vehicles a day |
| E1647 over CREEK · built 1940 | 50 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $12.7 million of work in Pushmataha County in fiscal 2025, about $1,179 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 Pushmataha 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 Pushmataha County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Choctaw County (26 mi) · Latimer County (35 mi) · Atoka County (36 mi) · McCurtain County (41 mi) · Pittsburg County (42 mi) · Lamar County, TX (50 mi).