Compare Oklahoma sheriff department costs

Sheriff department cost and staffing across all 77 counties. Click a column header to sort. Hover a column header to see what it measures. Data as of 2026-08-12.

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County Population Budget $/resident Sworn / 100k res Custody / 100k res Beds / 100k res
Adair County 19,726
Alfalfa County 5,683
Atoka County 14,117
Beaver County 5,071
Beckham County 22,295
Blaine County 8,661
Bryan County 46,528
Caddo County 26,910
Canadian County 156,681
Carter County 48,202
Cherokee County 47,412
Choctaw County 14,285
Cimarron County 2,272
Cleveland County 295,060
Coal County 5,287
Comanche County 121,777
Cotton County 5,537
Craig County 14,144
Creek County 72,076
Custer County 28,391
Delaware County 40,791
Dewey County 4,504
Ellis County 3,755
Garfield County 62,456
Garvin County 25,806
Grady County 55,314
Grant County 4,152
Greer County 5,531
Harmon County 2,499
Harper County 3,272
Haskell County 11,651
Hughes County 13,409
Jackson County 24,776
Jefferson County 5,420
Johnston County 10,410
Kay County 43,859
Kingfisher County 15,290
Kiowa County 8,446
Latimer County 9,537
Le Flore County 48,525
Lincoln County 33,734
Logan County 49,919
Love County 10,158
Major County 7,678
Marshall County 15,494
Mayes County 39,324
McClain County 42,393
McCurtain County 31,003
McIntosh County 19,159
Murray County 13,837
Muskogee County 66,606
Noble County 10,981
Nowata County 9,460
Okfuskee County 11,349
Oklahoma County 795,822
Okmulgee County 36,900
Osage County 46,004
Ottawa County 30,472
Pawnee County 15,682
Payne County 82,058
Pittsburg County 43,758
Pontotoc County 38,116
Pottawatomie County 72,734
Pushmataha County 10,845
Roger Mills County 3,423
Rogers County 95,870
Seminole County 23,592
Sequoyah County 39,538
Stephens County 43,140
Texas County 21,144
Tillman County 7,013
Tulsa County 668,923
Wagoner County 82,269
Washington County 52,579
Washita County 10,930
Woods County 8,661
Woodward County 20,411

A note on data vintages and definitions. Population is the US Census Bureau's 2018-2022 American Community Survey 5-year estimate. Sheriff staffing is not currently loaded for Oklahoma, so the staffing columns show a dash throughout this table. They previously carried the US Census Bureau's Census of Governments Employment 2022 figure, which counts a county government's police protection and corrections employment by function code rather than by agency. That total includes the county probation department, the coroner and the crime lab, and it excludes the sheriff's own court services staff, so it does not describe a sheriff's office. Staffing will return here when a county-published figure is loaded. County jail data has not yet been loaded for Oklahoma; the eventual source is expected to be the Oklahoma State Department of Health, which reviews jail construction plans and inspects every detention center at least annually under the Oklahoma Jail Standards Act (74 O.S. sections 192-194, amended by SB595 in 2025) (oklahoma.gov). Sheriff department budget data has not yet been loaded for Oklahoma. Sheriff names were collected from each county's official web presence (Association of County Commissioners of Oklahoma county profiles, county government sites, and sheriff office sites), supplemented by the Oklahoma State Election Board's 2024 Roster of State and County Officers (oklahoma.gov), and machine-verified against those sources in July 2026. All 77 counties are named. Three counties had appointed officeholders as of July 2026: Bryan County (Joey Tucker, appointed April 2025 after the death of Sheriff Johnny Christian, serving until a 2026 election), Coal County (Kenny Pibworth, interim since December 2025 while removal proceedings against the suspended elected sheriff were pending as of spring 2026), and Cleveland County (Darrell Weaver, sworn July 6, 2026 to complete the term after his predecessor resigned).