50,889 people (2024 Census estimate, +5.8% since 2020)
2,094 square miles of land · 24 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.
28 active community water systems list Bingham County in the area they serve, reporting 23,509 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| BLACKFOOT CITY OF groundwater · local government · ID6060007 | 13,224 served |
| SHELLEY CITY OF groundwater · local government · ID6060071 | 4,409 served |
| ABERDEEN CITY OF groundwater · local government · ID6060001 | 2,088 served |
| FIRTH CITY OF groundwater · local government · ID6060016 | 511 served |
| BASALT CITY OF groundwater · local government · ID6060004 | 425 served |
| MORELAND WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT groundwater · private · ID6060117 | 364 served |
| GROVELAND WATER AND SEWER DIST groundwater · private · ID6060095 | 295 served |
| GREENFIELD WATER AND SEWER groundwater · private · ID6060026 | 240 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 78 people were held in Bingham County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 262 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 101.
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.
5 school districts have their office in Bingham County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $54.7 million — $41.5 million to run schools, about $10,407 per student, plus $11 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.4 million local (mostly property tax), $31.5 million state, $8.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $24.7 million.
Spent $22.6 million — $22.4 million to run schools, about $7,742 per student, plus $54,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.1 million local (mostly property tax), $19.5 million state, $1.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $6.8 million.
Spent $23.5 million — $20.3 million to run schools, about $8,106 per student, plus $2.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.3 million local (mostly property tax), $18 million state, $3.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $12.4 million.
Spent $8.4 million — $7.5 million to run schools, about $8,817 per student, plus $913,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.2 million local (mostly property tax), $6.3 million state, $1.1 million federal.
Spent $8.7 million — $8.2 million to run schools, about $12,223 per student, plus $192,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.2 million local (mostly property tax), $6.1 million state, $1.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $9.6 million.
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 Bingham County about $23.1 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
263 bridges in Bingham County: 44 in good condition, 210 fair, and 9 poor (3.4%). “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.
| I 15 SBL over I15B;UPRR;S.BLACKFOOT IC · built 1961 | 13,750 vehicles a day |
| I 15 NBL over I15B;UPRR;S.BLACKFOOT IC · built 1961 | 13,750 vehicles a day |
| I 15B ;US 91 over BLACKFOOT RIVER · built 1936 | 7,000 vehicles a day |
| SMA 7611;W. BRIDGE over SNAKE RIVER · built 1936 | 6,900 vehicles a day |
| US 91 over BLACKFOOT CANAL · built 1951 | 4,600 vehicles a day |
| US 91 over GIBSON LATERAL CANAL · built 1923 | 3,800 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $37.1 million of work in Bingham County in fiscal 2025, about $773 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 Idaho 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 Bingham 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 Bingham County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Bannock County (37 mi) · Jefferson County (40 mi) · Bonneville County (41 mi) · Power County (42 mi) · Butte County (51 mi) · Caribou County (52 mi).