How to get the count

You should use a total_users property:

$query = new WP_User_Query( $args );    
$query->total_users;

or get_total method:

$query = new WP_User_Query( $args );    
$query-> get_total();

Docs are your friend: https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_User_Query

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