88,635 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.8% since 2020)
876 square miles of land · 101 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.
24 active community water systems list Dodge County in the area they serve, reporting 52,200 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| BEAVER DAM WATER UTILITY groundwater · local government · WI1140059 | 16,200 served |
| WAUPUN UTILITIES groundwater · local government · WI1140131 | 8,056 served |
| MAYVILLE WATERWORKS groundwater · local government · WI1140057 | 5,112 served |
| WAUPUN CORRECTIONAL INST groundwater · state · WI1140142 | 3,706 served |
| HORICON WATERWORKS groundwater · local government · WI1140146 | 3,682 served |
| LOMIRA WATERWORKS groundwater · local government · WI1140151 | 2,701 served |
| JUNEAU WATERWORKS groundwater · local government · WI1140058 | 2,627 served |
| FOX LAKE CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION groundwater · state · WI1140144 | 1,850 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 304 people were held in Dodge County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2025). In 2020 it was about 287.
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.
9 school districts have their office in Dodge County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $50.6 million — $44.5 million to run schools, about $14,025 per student, plus $1.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $18.1 million local (mostly property tax), $33.7 million state, $6.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $48.2 million.
Spent $30.8 million — $25.3 million to run schools, about $12,797 per student, plus $789,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11.9 million local (mostly property tax), $20.6 million state, $3.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $33.2 million.
Spent $16.5 million — $14.2 million to run schools, about $13,925 per student, plus $263,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.8 million local (mostly property tax), $11.2 million state, $1.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $14.7 million.
Spent $18.3 million — $15.4 million to run schools, about $15,684 per student, plus $452,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.7 million local (mostly property tax), $10.4 million state, $1.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $18.6 million.
Spent $15.1 million — $10.3 million to run schools, about $12,897 per student, plus $1.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.9 million local (mostly property tax), $8.5 million state, $1.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $23.9 million.
Spent $18.3 million — $12 million to run schools, about $15,911 per student, plus $4.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.7 million local (mostly property tax), $7.8 million state, $1.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $15.3 million.
Spent $10 million — $8.1 million to run schools, about $15,441 per student, plus $525,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.1 million local (mostly property tax), $6.5 million state, $1.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $11.7 million.
Spent $5.4 million — $4.5 million to run schools, about $14,000 per student, plus $83,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.9 million local (mostly property tax), $2.5 million state, $576,000 federal.
And 1 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 Dodge County about $34.1 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
213 bridges in Dodge County: 102 in good condition, 105 fair, and 6 poor (2.8%). “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.
| CTH N over BUTLER CREEK · built 1949 | 880 vehicles a day |
| CTH AY over E BR ROCK RIVER · built 1953 | 840 vehicles a day |
| CTH O over ROCK RIVER · built 1952 | 770 vehicles a day |
| CTH TT over CRAWFISH RIVER · built 1956 | 422 vehicles a day |
| LRD GOODLAND RD over RUBICON RIVER · built 1982 | 233 vehicles a day |
| LRD FARMERSVILLE R over GILL CREEK · built 1968 | 58 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $26.4 million of work in Dodge County in fiscal 2025, about $296 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 Wisconsin 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 Dodge 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 Dodge County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Washington County (24 mi) · Fond du Lac County (25 mi) · Green Lake County (28 mi) · Jefferson County (29 mi) · Columbia County (32 mi) · Waukesha County (35 mi).