19,991 people (2024 Census estimate, −2.1% since 2020)
1,243 square miles of land · 16 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.
9 active community water systems list Woodward County in the area they serve, reporting 18,944 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| WOODWARD groundwater · local government · OK2007701 | 15,000 served |
| MOORELAND groundwater · local government · OK2007709 | 1,226 served |
| WOODWARD CO RWD #2 groundwater · local government · OK2007710 | 920 served |
| DEWEY CO RWD #3 groundwater · local government · OK2007707 | 755 served |
| FORT SUPPLY PWA buys groundwater · local government · OK3007701 | 328 served |
| WOODWARD CO RWD #1 groundwater · local government · OK2007706 | 315 served |
| QUINLAN COMMUNITY RWD #1 groundwater · local government · OK2007708 | 185 served |
| SHARON UTILITIES groundwater · local government · OK2007741 | 175 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 43 people were held in Woodward County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 343 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 86.
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 Woodward County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $30.9 million — $27.2 million to run schools, about $10,847 per student, plus $3.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $13.1 million local (mostly property tax), $12.9 million state, $4.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $8 million.
Spent $8.1 million — $6.7 million to run schools, about $11,382 per student, plus $1.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.1 million local (mostly property tax), $3 million state, $591,000 federal. Long-term debt: $5 million.
Spent $4.3 million — $3.5 million to run schools, about $17,171 per student, plus $792,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.3 million local (mostly property tax), $802,000 state, $507,000 federal. Long-term debt: $775,000.
Spent $2.8 million — $2.7 million to run schools, about $19,862 per student, plus $24,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.4 million local (mostly property tax), $1 million state, $339,000 federal.
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 Woodward County about $12.7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
167 bridges in Woodward County: 56 in good condition, 105 fair, and 6 poor (3.6%). “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.
| N2040 LAKEVIEW over CRYSTAL BEACH SPILLWAY · built 1995 | 425 vehicles a day |
| E0410 over CREEK · built 1938 | 100 vehicles a day |
| E0550 over HACKBERRY CREEK · built 1983 | 100 vehicles a day |
| E0390 over WEST CREEK · built 1993 | 50 vehicles a day |
| E0275 over CHIMNEY CREEK · built 1993 | 24 vehicles a day |
| N2200 over CREEK · built 1995 | 24 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $6.3 million of work in Woodward County in fiscal 2025, about $308 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 Woodward 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 Woodward County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Ellis County (30 mi) · Woods County (31 mi) · Harper County (34 mi) · Dewey County (34 mi) · Major County (41 mi) · Comanche County, KS (52 mi).