40,555 people (2024 Census estimate, +3.3% since 2020)
674 square miles of land · 60 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.
14 active community water systems list Sequoyah County in the area they serve, reporting 40,162 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| SEQUOYAH CO. RWD #8 surface water · local government · OK1020210 | 13,460 served |
| SALLISAW surface water · local government · OK1020206 | 8,510 served |
| MULDROW PWA surface water · local government · OK1020208 | 3,104 served |
| SEQUOYAH CO. RWD #7 buys surface water · local government · OK3006806 | 2,948 served |
| ROLAND surface water · local government · OK1020212 | 2,842 served |
| SEQUOYAH CO. RWD #4 buys surface water · local government · OK3006809 | 1,750 served |
| GORE PWA surface water · local government · OK1021773 | 1,688 served |
| VIAN buys surface water · local government · OK3006812 | 1,445 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 127 people were held in Sequoyah County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 513 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 119.
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 Sequoyah County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $21.8 million — $20.2 million to run schools, about $11,060 per student, plus $1.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.9 million local (mostly property tax), $11.7 million state, $5.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $4 million.
Spent $15.2 million — $15 million to run schools, about $11,625 per student, plus $211,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.6 million local (mostly property tax), $9 million state, $3.7 million federal.
Spent $11.1 million — $10.5 million to run schools, about $11,148 per student, plus $540,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.3 million local (mostly property tax), $7 million state, $3.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $975,000.
Spent $10.6 million — $9.7 million to run schools, about $11,887 per student, plus $826,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.1 million local (mostly property tax), $5.5 million state, $2.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.5 million.
Spent $6.8 million — $5.9 million to run schools, about $11,239 per student, plus $900,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.1 million local (mostly property tax), $3.2 million state, $1.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $2 million.
Spent $5.2 million — $5.1 million to run schools, about $10,854 per student, plus $112,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1 million local (mostly property tax), $3.2 million state, $1.3 million federal.
Spent $4.1 million — $4.1 million to run schools, about $10,501 per student, plus $5,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $631,000 local (mostly property tax), $2.9 million state, $1.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $300,000.
Spent $4 million — $3.7 million to run schools, about $9,765 per student, plus $348,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $664,000 local (mostly property tax), $2.6 million state, $905,000 federal.
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 Sequoyah County about $23.5 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.
262 bridges in Sequoyah County: 98 in good condition, 155 fair, and 9 poor (3.4%). “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.
| U.S. 64 WB over GENERAL OFLOW · built 1975 | 9,550 vehicles a day |
| U.S. 59 over HOG CREEK · built 1933 | 5,000 vehicles a day |
| SPWY BR OK SH100 over TENKILLER LAKE ON IL. R. · built 1953 | 940 vehicles a day |
| N4450 over WEBBER CREEK · built 1930 | 100 vehicles a day |
| N4600 over CREEK · built 1960 | 100 vehicles a day |
| 6822C/ E1092 over CREEK · built 1986 | 100 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $23.3 million of work in Sequoyah County in fiscal 2025, about $593 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 Sequoyah 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 Sequoyah County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Haskell County (27 mi) · Adair County (28 mi) · Crawford County, AR (29 mi) · Cherokee County (31 mi) · Sebastian County, AR (34 mi) · Muskogee County (36 mi).