2,432 people (2024 Census estimate, −5.5% since 2020)
1,069 square miles of land · 2 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.
3 active community water systems list Rawlins County in the area they serve, reporting 1,519 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| ATWOOD, CITY OF groundwater · local government · KS2015301 | 1,282 served |
| HERNDON, CITY OF groundwater · local government · KS2015302 | 121 served |
| MCDONALD, CITY OF groundwater · local government · KS2015303 | 116 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 8 people were held in Rawlins County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 574 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 7.
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 Rawlins County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $6.2 million — $5.8 million to run schools, about $15,180 per student, plus $367,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2 million local (mostly property tax), $3.9 million state, $314,000 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 Rawlins County about $4.2 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
102 bridges in Rawlins County: 50 in good condition, 38 fair, and 14 poor (13.7%). “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.
| Q.5 ROAD (RS 553) over BEAVER CREEK · built 1930 | 140 vehicles a day |
| 16.5 ROAD(RS 1764) over LITTLE BEAVER CREEK · built 1960 | 60 vehicles a day |
| 23.5 ROAD over BEAVER CREEK · built 1949 | 25 vehicles a day |
| 30 ROAD over NORTH FORK SAPPA CREEK · built 1971 | 20 vehicles a day |
| CC.5 ROAD over EAST FORK BURNTWOOD CR. · built 1930 | 15 vehicles a day |
| R ROAD over LITTLE BEAVER CREEK · built 1953 | 15 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $1 million of work in Rawlins County in fiscal 2025, about $399 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 Rawlins 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 Rawlins County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Hitchcock County, NE (27 mi) · Thomas County (30 mi) · Decatur County (33 mi) · Cheyenne County (34 mi) · Red Willow County, NE (42 mi) · Dundy County, NE (42 mi).