46,762 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.1% since 2020)
2,505 square miles of land · 19 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.
18 active community water systems list Beltrami County in the area they serve, reporting 17,282 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| Bemidji groundwater · local government · MN1040002 | 15,147 served |
| Blackduck groundwater · local government · MN1040014 | 826 served |
| Kelliher groundwater · local government · MN1040017 | 259 served |
| Oak Hills Fellowship Bible College groundwater · private · MN1040031 | 150 served |
| Elpine Village groundwater · private · MN1040001 | 125 served |
| Birchlane Trailer Court groundwater · private · MN1040007 | 80 served |
| Grass Lake Mobile Home Park groundwater · private · MN1040030 | 80 served |
| Woodland Mobile Home Park groundwater · private · MN1040027 | 70 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 97 people were held in Beltrami County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 337 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 115.
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 Beltrami County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $83.2 million — $73.5 million to run schools, about $15,202 per student, plus $5.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $16.2 million local (mostly property tax), $56.6 million state, $12.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $36.8 million.
Spent $49.8 million — $42.2 million to run schools, about $29,400 per student, plus $5.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.5 million local (mostly property tax), $24.4 million state, $20.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $57.1 million.
Spent $14 million — $10.3 million to run schools, about $14,423 per student, plus $3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.3 million local (mostly property tax), $8.8 million state, $3.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $3.6 million.
Spent $7.7 million — $6.8 million to run schools, about $20,699 per student, plus $277,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.3 million local (mostly property tax), $5.3 million state, $1.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $5.4 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 Beltrami County about $20.1 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
101 bridges in Beltrami County: 64 in good condition, 34 fair, and 3 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.
| MN 72 over TAMARAC RIVER · built 1962 | 792 vehicles a day |
| CSAH 38 over S BR BATTLE RIVER · built 1957 | 90 vehicles a day |
| T 393 over SHOTLEY BROOK · built 1917 | 1 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $58.9 million of work in Beltrami County in fiscal 2025, about $1,274 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 Minnesota 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 Beltrami 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 Beltrami County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Clearwater County (27 mi) · Pennington County (50 mi) · Red Lake County (50 mi) · Mahnomen County (53 mi) · Hubbard County (54 mi) · Lake of the Woods County (61 mi).