14,074 people (2024 Census estimate, +6.6% since 2020)
2,637 square miles of land · 5 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.
15 active community water systems list Shoshone County in the area they serve, reporting 13,628 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CENTRAL SHOSHONE COUNTY WATER DIST groundwater (surface-influenced) · local government · ID1400089 | 6,455 served |
| E SHOSHONE COUNTY WATER DIST WALLACE surface water · private · ID1400019 | 2,388 served |
| PINEHURST WATER DIST groundwater · public/private · ID1400041 | 1,950 served |
| E SHOSHONE COUNTY WATER DIST MULLAN surface water · local government · ID1400017 | 840 served |
| CATALDO WATER DIST groundwater · public/private · ID1400012 | 680 served |
| KINGSTON WATER DIST 1 groundwater · public/private · ID1400030 | 585 served |
| LEISURE ACRES TRAILER COURT groundwater · private · ID1400032 | 180 served |
| AVERY WATER AND SEWER DIST groundwater · public/private · ID1400004 | 114 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 46 people were held in Shoshone County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 584 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 36.
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.
4 school districts have their office in Shoshone County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $14.1 million — $13.4 million to run schools, about $11,142 per student, plus $583,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.8 million local (mostly property tax), $9.2 million state, $2.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.2 million.
Spent $7.4 million — $7.1 million to run schools, about $13,924 per student, plus $280,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2 million local (mostly property tax), $4.5 million state, $1.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $255,000.
Spent $2.9 million — $2.8 million to run schools, about $32,647 per student, plus $37,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $843,000 local (mostly property tax), $1.6 million state, $285,000 federal.
Spent $867,000 — $791,000 to run schools, about $32,958 per student, plus $76,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $190,000 local (mostly property tax), $420,000 state, $278,000 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: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Shoshone County about $20 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
261 bridges in Shoshone County: 61 in good condition, 174 fair, and 26 poor (10.0%). “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 90B over S.FK.CDA R;I-90B ARCH · built 1940 | 2,300 vehicles a day |
| BUNKER AVE over S.FK.COEUR DALENE RIVER · built 1971 | 1,900 vehicles a day |
| OLD RIVER ROAD over STC 5752;N.FK.CDA RIVER · built 1930 | 1,200 vehicles a day |
| STC5752;CDA RVR RD over COEUR DALENE RIVER · built 1951 | 960 vehicles a day |
| SH 3 over ST MARIES RIVER · built 1955 | 460 vehicles a day |
| STC 5711;MOON PASS over BIG DICK CREEK · built 1909 | 370 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $3.8 million of work in Shoshone County in fiscal 2025, about $289 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 Shoshone 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 Shoshone County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Benewah County (36 mi) · Mineral County, MT (40 mi) · Sanders County, MT (43 mi) · Kootenai County (44 mi) · Clearwater County (48 mi) · Latah County (54 mi).