9,151 people (2024 Census estimate, +4.6% since 2020)
2,457 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.
11 active community water systems list Clearwater County in the area they serve, reporting 5,916 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| OROFINO CITY OF surface water · local government · ID2180024 | 2,459 served |
| RIVERSIDE WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT surface water · local government · ID2180032 | 2,000 served |
| PIERCE CITY OF surface water · local government · ID2180027 | 467 served |
| WEIPPE CITY OF groundwater · local government · ID2180037 | 438 served |
| ELK RIVER CITY OF surface water · local government · ID2180013 | 165 served |
| NEW HOPE SUBD buys surface water · private · ID2180023 | 100 served |
| PLEASANT ACRES WATER AND SEWER DIST buys groundwater · public/private · ID2180028 | 89 served |
| AHSAHKA WATER AND SEWER DIST surface water · public/private · ID2180001 | 85 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 16 people were held in Clearwater County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 308 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 23.
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.
1 school district has its office in Clearwater County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $17.8 million — $16.7 million to run schools, about $14,750 per student, plus $1.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.7 million local (mostly property tax), $10.7 million state, $4 million 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: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Clearwater County about $10.2 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
88 bridges in Clearwater County: 38 in good condition, 44 fair, and 6 poor (6.8%). “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.
| NO DATA ENTERED over OROFINO CREEK · built 1958 | 140 vehicles a day |
| MAIN STREET SOUTH over JIM FORD CREEK · built 1965 | 80 vehicles a day |
| CEMETARY RD over JIM FORD CREEK · built 1975 | 50 vehicles a day |
| NO DATA ENTERED over OSIER CREEK · built 1954 | 40 vehicles a day |
| FDR 382 over ELK CREEK · built 1961 | 20 vehicles a day |
| FDR 382 over ELK CREEK · built 1961 | 20 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $6.6 million of work in Clearwater County in fiscal 2025, about $751 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 Clearwater 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 Clearwater County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Mineral County, MT (41 mi) · Lewis County (47 mi) · Shoshone County (48 mi) · Latah County (52 mi) · Nez Perce County (57 mi) · Idaho County (57 mi).