6,109 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.3% since 2020)
548 square miles of land · 11 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 Grant County in the area they serve, reporting 3,437 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| Elbow Lake groundwater · local government · MN1260003 | 1,285 served |
| Hoffman groundwater · local government · MN1260006 | 703 served |
| Ashby groundwater · local government · MN1260001 | 472 served |
| Herman groundwater · local government · MN1260005 | 386 served |
| Barrett groundwater · local government · MN1260002 | 374 served |
| Wendell groundwater · local government · MN1260008 | 167 served |
| Norcross groundwater · local government · MN1260007 | 50 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.
No county jail figure in the national data for Grant County — not gathered, never hidden. Some counties share a regional jail or have none.
3 school districts have their office in Grant County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $13 million — $11.5 million to run schools, about $14,757 per student, plus $563,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.9 million local (mostly property tax), $8.2 million state, $886,000 federal. Long-term debt: $1.1 million.
Spent $10.2 million — $4.3 million to run schools, about $12,689 per student, plus $5.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.4 million local (mostly property tax), $3.6 million state, $499,000 federal. Long-term debt: $6.2 million.
Spent $2.5 million — $2.1 million to run schools, about $20,431 per student, plus $264,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $460,000 local (mostly property tax), $1.6 million state, $288,000 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 Grant County about $4.2 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.
32 bridges in Grant County: 19 in good condition, 9 fair, and 4 poor (12.5%). “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.
| I 94 over PELICAN CREEK · built 1963 | 15,302 vehicles a day |
| CSAH 2 over CHIPPEWA RIVER · built 1957 | 290 vehicles a day |
| CR 52 over POMME DE TERRE RIVER · built 1964 | 55 vehicles a day |
| CR 38 over CP RAIL · built 1910 | 30 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $3.8 million of work in Grant County in fiscal 2025, about $633 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 Grant 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 Grant County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Stevens County (23 mi) · Traverse County (25 mi) · Douglas County (26 mi) · Otter Tail County (36 mi) · Pope County (36 mi) · Wilkin County (37 mi).