53,459 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.5% since 2020)
720 square miles of land · 74 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.
11 active community water systems list Saline County in the area they serve, reporting 50,739 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| SALINA, CITY OF surface water · local government · KS2016914 | 46,481 served |
| SALINE CO RWD 3 buys surface water · local government · KS2016912 | 936 served |
| SALINE CO RWD 4 groundwater · local government · KS2016913 | 768 served |
| SALINE CO RWD 2 groundwater · local government · KS2016911 | 465 served |
| ASSARIA, CITY OF groundwater · local government · KS2016902 | 427 served |
| SALINE CO RWD 7 buys surface water · local government · KS2016917 | 418 served |
| GYPSUM, CITY OF groundwater · local government · KS2016906 | 402 served |
| SALINE CO RWD 8 groundwater · local government · KS2016918 | 298 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 255 people were held in Saline County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2022), or 769 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2017 it was about 276.
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 Saline County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $146.7 million — $131.8 million to run schools, about $18,954 per student, plus $10.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $51.5 million local (mostly property tax), $80.7 million state, $26.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $99.7 million.
Spent $10.4 million — $9.9 million to run schools, about $14,297 per student, plus $348,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.2 million local (mostly property tax), $7.1 million state, $539,000 federal. Long-term debt: $4.5 million.
Spent $7.7 million — $6.5 million to run schools, about $15,077 per student, plus $1.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.9 million local (mostly property tax), $5.7 million state, $824,000 federal. Long-term debt: $5.8 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: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Saline County about $32.4 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
366 bridges in Saline County: 252 in good condition, 106 fair, and 8 poor (2.2%). “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.
| I135 HWY SB over I70 HIGHWAY · built 1963 | 4,294 vehicles a day |
| K4 HWY over DRY CREEK · built 1958 | 1,141 vehicles a day |
| GRAND AVENUE over DRY CREEK · built 1950 | 300 vehicles a day |
| LOCAL 464-811 over GYPSUM CREEK · built 1956 | 62 vehicles a day |
| CORRECTION LINE RD over CASTLE CREEK · built 1940 | 10 vehicles a day |
| LOCAL 815-474.8 over STREAM · built 1972 | 4 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $8.4 million of work in Saline County in fiscal 2025, about $155 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 Saline 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 Saline County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Ottawa County (24 mi) · Dickinson County (27 mi) · McPherson County (27 mi) · Ellsworth County (30 mi) · Lincoln County (35 mi) · Marion County (42 mi).