4,613 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.3% since 2020)
717 square miles of land · 6 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.
10 active community water systems list Republic County in the area they serve, reporting 4,932 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| BELLEVILLE, CITY OF groundwater · local government · KS2015704 | 2,021 served |
| REPUBLIC CO RWD 2 groundwater · local government · KS2015711 | 1,293 served |
| REPUBLIC CO RWD 1 groundwater · local government · KS2015702 | 548 served |
| SCANDIA, CITY OF groundwater · local government · KS2015710 | 337 served |
| COURTLAND, CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · KS2015703 | 288 served |
| CUBA, CITY OF groundwater · local government · KS2015701 | 139 served |
| MUNDEN, CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · KS2015708 | 99 served |
| REPUBLIC, CITY OF groundwater · local government · KS2015709 | 83 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 6 people were held in Republic County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 229 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.
2 school districts have their office in Republic County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $8.8 million — $7.5 million to run schools, about $14,344 per student, plus $712,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.1 million local (mostly property tax), $5.4 million state, $875,000 federal. Long-term debt: $15.8 million.
Spent $6.9 million — $3.8 million to run schools, about $16,769 per student, plus $2.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.6 million local (mostly property tax), $2.6 million state, $327,000 federal. Long-term debt: $6.1 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 Republic County about $7.3 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
267 bridges in Republic County: 149 in good condition, 110 fair, and 8 poor (3.0%). “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.
| LOCAL RD. Q-4.1 over TRIB. TO BEAVER CREEK · built 1930 | 50 vehicles a day |
| LOCAL RD. N-19.0 over SALT CREEK · built 1930 | 50 vehicles a day |
| RS 1041 over TRIB TO S. FORK MILL CRK · built 1940 | 47 vehicles a day |
| LOCAL RD. D-9.4 over TRIB. TO OTTER CREEK · built 1949 | 10 vehicles a day |
| LOCAL RD. T-10.7 over TRIB. TO LOST CREEK · built 1937 | 10 vehicles a day |
| LOCAL RD. X-11.9 over GRAVE CREEK · built 1951 | 10 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $551,300 of work in Republic County in fiscal 2025, about $118 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 Republic 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 Republic County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Cloud County (24 mi) · Thayer County, NE (24 mi) · Washington County (30 mi) · Jewell County (31 mi) · Nuckolls County, NE (32 mi) · Jefferson County, NE (36 mi).