27,662 people (2024 Census estimate, +8.1% since 2020)
407 square miles of land · 68 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.
7 active community water systems list Payette County in the area they serve, reporting 17,449 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| PAYETTE CITY OF groundwater · local government · ID3380009 | 8,127 served |
| FRUITLAND CITY OF surface water · local government · ID3380005 | 7,458 served |
| NEW PLYMOUTH CITY OF groundwater · local government · ID3380008 | 1,600 served |
| IDAHO WEST ESTATES groundwater · private · ID3380035 | 98 served |
| LOMA LINDA WATER CORP groundwater · private · ID3380007 | 70 served |
| DECKER ADDITION groundwater · private · ID3380004 | 55 served |
| LAZY RIVER MOBILE HOME PARK 1 groundwater · private · ID3380019 | 41 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 72 people were held in Payette County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 484 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 57.
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 Payette County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $15.2 million — $14.2 million to run schools, about $8,715 per student, plus $732,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.3 million local (mostly property tax), $12.2 million state, $2.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $3.4 million.
Spent $14.7 million — $13.8 million to run schools, about $10,042 per student, plus $486,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.6 million local (mostly property tax), $10.1 million state, $4 million federal.
Spent $11.4 million — $9.7 million to run schools, about $9,834 per student, plus $1.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.3 million local (mostly property tax), $7.2 million state, $1.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $5.9 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Payette County about $8 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.
65 bridges in Payette County: 13 in good condition, 49 fair, and 3 poor (4.6%). “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.
| SH 52 over SNAKE RIVER;PAYETTE BR. · built 1953 | 5,100 vehicles a day |
| SMA 8803;6TH AVE over PAYETTE RIVER · built 1959 | 1,400 vehicles a day |
| BLUFF ROAD over BIG WILLOW CREEK · built 1962 | 130 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $12.5 million of work in Payette County in fiscal 2025, about $492 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 Payette 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 Payette County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Gem County (18 mi) · Canyon County (26 mi) · Washington County (31 mi) · Ada County (46 mi) · Boise County (51 mi) · Adams County (62 mi).