73,943 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.3% since 2020)
793 square miles of land · 93 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 Wood County in the area they serve, reporting 45,818 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| WIS RAPIDS WATER WORKS & LIGHTING COMM groundwater · local government · WI7720108 | 20,000 served |
| MARSHFIELD UTILITIES groundwater · local government · WI7720165 | 18,815 served |
| NEKOOSA WATERWORKS groundwater · local government · WI7720169 | 2,394 served |
| PORT EDWARDS WATER UTILITY groundwater · local government · WI7720113 | 1,866 served |
| BIRON WATER UTILITY groundwater · local government · WI7720171 | 879 served |
| PITTSVILLE WATERWORKS groundwater · local government · WI7720112 | 800 served |
| VESPER WATERWORKS groundwater · local government · WI7720134 | 512 served |
| MILLADORE WATERWORKS groundwater · local government · WI7720994 | 280 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 128 people were held in Wood County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2025). In 2020 it was about 66.
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.
6 school districts have their office in Wood County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $111.2 million — $72.3 million to run schools, about $15,461 per student, plus $29.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $29.3 million local (mostly property tax), $55.6 million state, $10.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $44.3 million.
Spent $59.6 million — $53.8 million to run schools, about $14,008 per student, plus $1.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $25.1 million local (mostly property tax), $36.1 million state, $6.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $7.1 million.
Spent $20.5 million — $17.6 million to run schools, about $14,087 per student, plus $154,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $15.8 million local (mostly property tax), $7.3 million state, $2.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $17.7 million.
Spent $14.5 million — $11.7 million to run schools, about $13,806 per student, plus $989,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.8 million local (mostly property tax), $8.1 million state, $1.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $6.9 million.
Spent $11.2 million — $9.2 million to run schools, about $16,292 per student, plus $459,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4 million local (mostly property tax), $5.8 million state, $1.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $7.9 million.
Spent $8.1 million — $6.3 million to run schools, about $14,040 per student, plus $227,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.1 million local (mostly property tax), $5 million state, $874,000 federal. Long-term debt: $343,000.
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 Wood County about $39.4 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
240 bridges in Wood County: 149 in good condition, 78 fair, and 13 poor (5.4%). “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.
| CTH A over BR YELLOW RIVER · built 1936 | 2,700 vehicles a day |
| CTH Z GRIFFITH A over BUENA VISTA CREEK · built 1959 | 1,715 vehicles a day |
| CTH C over BR YELLOW RIVER · built 1957 | 510 vehicles a day |
| CTH HH over HEMLOCK CREEK · built 1961 | 485 vehicles a day |
| CTH HH over BR HEMLOCK CREEK · built 1914 | 480 vehicles a day |
| CTH V over E BR BLACK RIVER · built 1953 | 350 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $17.8 million of work in Wood County in fiscal 2025, about $240 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 Wood 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 Wood County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Portage County (27 mi) · Marathon County (33 mi) · Clark County (34 mi) · Adams County (36 mi) · Juneau County (37 mi) · Jackson County (39 mi).