45,442 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.9% since 2020)
2,668 square miles of land · 17 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 Itasca County in the area they serve, reporting 21,457 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| Grand Rapids groundwater · local government · MN1310011 | 11,346 served |
| Coleraine groundwater · local government · MN1310006 | 1,997 served |
| Keewatin groundwater · local government · MN1310021 | 1,068 served |
| Cohasset Municipal Water System groundwater · local government · MN1310035 | 1,000 served |
| Nashwauk groundwater · local government · MN1310024 | 971 served |
| Deer River groundwater · local government · MN1310007 | 942 served |
| Bovey groundwater · local government · MN1310003 | 821 served |
| Marble groundwater · local government · MN1310023 | 699 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 61 people were held in Itasca County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 229 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 79.
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 Itasca County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $72.8 million — $57.9 million to run schools, about $14,391 per student, plus $9.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $23.3 million local (mostly property tax), $43.1 million state, $7 million federal. Long-term debt: $107.8 million.
Spent $20.6 million — $16.4 million to run schools, about $15,507 per student, plus $2.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.9 million local (mostly property tax), $12.6 million state, $2.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $21.7 million.
Spent $21.4 million — $17.3 million to run schools, about $19,593 per student, plus $2.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.3 million local (mostly property tax), $11.9 million state, $3.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $14.6 million.
Spent $14.6 million — $8.8 million to run schools, about $15,096 per student, plus $3.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.1 million local (mostly property tax), $6.7 million state, $925,000 federal. Long-term debt: $52.8 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 Itasca County about $31.4 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
171 bridges in Itasca County: 84 in good condition, 79 fair, and 8 poor (4.7%). “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.
| CSAH 17 over POKEGAMA LAKE · built 1955 | 1,560 vehicles a day |
| MN 6 over BIG FORK RIVER · built 1965 | 520 vehicles a day |
| CSAH 70 over SWAN RIVER · built 1953 | 377 vehicles a day |
| CSAH 40 over BIG FORK RIVER · built 1980 | 110 vehicles a day |
| CSAH 68 over SPLIT HAND CREEK · built 1950 | 60 vehicles a day |
| CR 439 over SPLIT HAND CREEK · built 1950 | 40 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $18.6 million of work in Itasca County in fiscal 2025, about $413 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 Itasca 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 Itasca County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Cass County (50 mi) · St. Louis County (51 mi) · Koochiching County (53 mi) · Aitkin County (62 mi) · Hubbard County (67 mi) · Beltrami County (70 mi).