91,257 people (2024 Census estimate, +12.1% since 2020)
562 square miles of land · 162 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.
13 active community water systems list Wagoner County in the area they serve, reporting 72,137 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| WAGONER CO. RWD #4 surface water · local government · OK1021529 | 37,658 served |
| COWETA PWA surface water · local government · OK1021509 | 9,450 served |
| WAGONER surface water · local government · OK1021649 | 7,982 served |
| WAGONER CO. RWD #9 surface water · local government · OK1021527 | 4,363 served |
| WAGONER CO. RWD #5 surface water · local government · OK1021528 | 4,251 served |
| PORTER PWA buys surface water · local government · OK3007306 | 2,400 served |
| WAGONER CO. RWD #2 surface water · local government · OK1021643 | 2,000 served |
| WAGONER CO. RWD #6 buys surface water · local government · OK3007330 | 1,500 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 82 people were held in Wagoner County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 145 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 136.
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 Wagoner County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $32.4 million — $28.1 million to run schools, about $7,862 per student, plus $3.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $13.9 million local (mostly property tax), $18.3 million state, $3.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $10.5 million.
Spent $23.6 million — $23 million to run schools, about $11,153 per student, plus $536,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.9 million local (mostly property tax), $12.9 million state, $4.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $4 million.
Spent $6.9 million — $5.8 million to run schools, about $10,585 per student, plus $1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.1 million local (mostly property tax), $3.4 million state, $859,000 federal. Long-term debt: $1 million.
Spent $3.8 million — $3.7 million to run schools, about $9,992 per student, plus $17,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.2 million local (mostly property tax), $2.2 million state, $623,000 federal. Long-term debt: $880,000.
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 Wagoner County about $34.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
257 bridges in Wagoner County: 136 in good condition, 105 fair, and 16 poor (6.2%). “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.
| OLD S.H. 72 (S289) over COWETA CREEK · built 1922 | 3,440 vehicles a day |
| SPLWY BRDG OK 251A over FT GIBSON L GRAND R SPWY · built 1953 | 830 vehicles a day |
| N4120 over SALT CREEK · built 1985 | 480 vehicles a day |
| 7334C over CREEK · built 1939 | 361 vehicles a day |
| 7358C over CREEK · built 1940 | 350 vehicles a day |
| E0600 over SPUNKY CREEK · built 1989 | 300 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $58 million of work in Wagoner County in fiscal 2025, about $717 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 Wagoner 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 Wagoner County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Muskogee County (25 mi) · Tulsa County (26 mi) · Mayes County (28 mi) · Rogers County (29 mi) · Cherokee County (29 mi) · Okmulgee County (34 mi).