53,955 people (2024 Census estimate, +13.8% since 2020)
1,733 square miles of land · 31 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.
53 active community water systems list Bonner County in the area they serve, reporting 28,778 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| SANDPOINT PUBLIC WORKS DEPT surface water · local government · ID1090121 | 12,284 served |
| PRIEST RIVER CITY OF surface water · local government · ID1090107 | 2,173 served |
| ODEN WATER ASSN INC surface water · local government · ID1090092 | 1,524 served |
| SCHWEITZER BASIN WATER COMPANY groundwater · private · ID1090124 | 955 served |
| STONERIDGE UTILITIES groundwater · private · ID1090009 | 940 served |
| DOVER CITY OF surface water · local government · ID1090193 | 865 served |
| CLARK FORK CITY OF groundwater · local government · ID1090018 | 730 served |
| SAGLE VALLEY WATER DIST groundwater · public/private · ID1090118 | 708 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 133 people were held in Bonner County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2020), or 479 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2015 it was about 91.
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.
2 school districts have their office in Bonner County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $47.8 million — $46.1 million to run schools, about $12,061 per student, plus $1.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $16.3 million local (mostly property tax), $29.1 million state, $7.7 million federal.
Spent $13.4 million — $12.8 million to run schools, about $11,154 per student, plus $349,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.4 million local (mostly property tax), $8.3 million state, $3.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $21,000.
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 Bonner County about $35.4 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
104 bridges in Bonner County: 38 in good condition, 55 fair, and 11 poor (10.6%). “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.
| US 2 over PRIEST RIVER · built 1962 | 3,100 vehicles a day |
| S5786;COLBURN CULV over GROUSE CREEK · built 1941 | 870 vehicles a day |
| COLBURN CULVER RD over PACK RIVER · built 1941 | 870 vehicles a day |
| E SHORE ROAD over HUNT CREEK · built 1975 | 430 vehicles a day |
| RAPID LIGHTNING RD over RAPID LIGHTNING CREEK · built 1970 | 280 vehicles a day |
| FS ROUTE NO. 2706 over GRANITE CREEK · built 1964 | 50 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $15.7 million of work in Bonner County in fiscal 2025, about $333 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 Bonner 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 Bonner County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Boundary County (31 mi) · Pend Oreille County, WA (32 mi) · Kootenai County (45 mi) · Lincoln County, MT (56 mi) · Stevens County, WA (56 mi) · Spokane County, WA (60 mi).