2,507 people (2024 Census estimate, −2.6% since 2020)
773 square miles of land · 3 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 Chase County in the area they serve, reporting 1,728 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| COTTONWOOD FALLS, CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · KS2001703 | 821 served |
| STRONG CITY, CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · KS2001701 | 455 served |
| CHASE CO RWD 1 buys groundwater · local government · KS2001705 | 330 served |
| MATFIELD GREEN, CITY OF groundwater · local government · KS2001702 | 52 served |
| ELMDALE, CITY OF groundwater · local government · KS2001704 | 42 served |
| CEDAR POINT, CITY OF groundwater · local government · KS2001706 | 27 served |
| PUBLIC WHOLESALE WSD 26 groundwater · local government · KS2001709 | 1 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 140 people were held in Chase County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 9,253 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 162.
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 Chase County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $6.8 million — $6 million to run schools, about $15,543 per student, plus $464,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.4 million local (mostly property tax), $3.9 million state, $378,000 federal. Long-term debt: $9.6 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 Chase County about $5.1 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
191 bridges in Chase County: 92 in good condition, 85 fair, and 14 poor (7.3%). “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.
| RS 93 over PICKETT CREEK · built 1951 | 185 vehicles a day |
| RS 92 over MIDDLE CREEK · built 1964 | 145 vehicles a day |
| 10-U.1 MINOR COL over PEYTON CREEK · built 1935 | 80 vehicles a day |
| 19-A2 LOCAL RD. over COTTONWOOD RIVER · built 1916 | 50 vehicles a day |
| 15.2-H.1 LOCAL RD. over COTTONWOOD RIVER · built 1984 | 45 vehicles a day |
| 18-C LOCAL RD. over FRENCH CREEK · built 1940 | 40 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $-125,465 of work in Chase County in fiscal 2025, about $-49 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 Kansas 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 Chase 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 Chase County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Lyon County (26 mi) · Morris County (27 mi) · Marion County (28 mi) · Greenwood County (35 mi) · Butler County (39 mi) · Coffey County (47 mi).