7,239 people (2024 Census estimate, +3.2% since 2020)
1,764 square miles of land · 4 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.
8 active community water systems list Caribou County in the area they serve, reporting 4,816 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| SODA SPRINGS CITY OF groundwater · local government · ID6150017 | 3,111 served |
| GRACE CITY OF groundwater · local government · ID6150010 | 920 served |
| BANCROFT CITY OF groundwater · local government · ID6150002 | 350 served |
| BAILEY CREEK PROPERTY OWNERS ASSN groundwater · private · ID6150001 | 250 served |
| TROUT CREEK CULINARY WATER INC groundwater · private · ID6150019 | 90 served |
| VALLEY VIEW WATER ASSN groundwater · private · ID6150022 | 35 served |
| WHISKEY CREEK WATER USERS groundwater · private · ID6150024 | 35 served |
| EVERGREEN HEIGHTS SUBD groundwater · private · ID6150008 | 25 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 42 people were held in Caribou County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 977 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 43.
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.
3 school districts have their office in Caribou County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $12 million — $11.1 million to run schools, about $12,020 per student, plus $781,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.8 million local (mostly property tax), $7.8 million state, $875,000 federal. Long-term debt: $3.8 million.
Spent $6.1 million — $5.6 million to run schools, about $10,427 per student, plus $367,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.2 million local (mostly property tax), $4.6 million state, $689,000 federal. Long-term debt: $4.3 million.
Spent $2.7 million — $2.4 million to run schools, about $17,717 per student, plus $227,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $597,000 local (mostly property tax), $1.9 million state, $382,000 federal.
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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Caribou County about $4.9 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
45 bridges in Caribou County: 12 in good condition, 31 fair, and 2 poor (4.4%). “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.
| 8 MILE ROAD over BEAR RIVER · built 1972 | 100 vehicles a day |
| CHESTERFIELD RES R over CHESTERFIELD CANAL · built 2005 | 50 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $1.3 million of work in Caribou County in fiscal 2025, about $178 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 Caribou 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 Caribou County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Bannock County (35 mi) · Bear Lake County (36 mi) · Bonneville County (42 mi) · Franklin County (45 mi) · Bingham County (52 mi) · Lincoln County, WY (58 mi).