44,674 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.2% since 2020)
797 square miles of land · 56 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.
15 active community water systems list Kandiyohi County in the area they serve, reporting 30,003 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| Willmar groundwater · local government · MN1340016 | 21,991 served |
| Glacial Lakes Sanitary Sewer/Water Dist groundwater · local government · MN1340021 | 1,335 served |
| New London buys groundwater · local government · MN1340005 | 1,319 served |
| Spicer buys groundwater · local government · MN1340010 | 1,225 served |
| Atwater groundwater · local government · MN1340001 | 1,133 served |
| Raymond groundwater · local government · MN1340008 | 799 served |
| Kandiyohi groundwater · local government · MN1340003 | 560 served |
| Prinsburg groundwater · local government · MN1340007 | 511 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 52 people were held in Kandiyohi County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 197 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 119.
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 Kandiyohi County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $77.7 million — $68.3 million to run schools, about $15,958 per student, plus $3.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $12.2 million local (mostly property tax), $53.5 million state, $13.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $40 million.
Spent $25.9 million — $22.3 million to run schools, about $14,433 per student, plus $1.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8.7 million local (mostly property tax), $16.9 million state, $1.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $19.7 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 Kandiyohi County about $17.7 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.
93 bridges in Kandiyohi County: 44 in good condition, 34 fair, and 15 poor (16.1%). “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 9 over BNSF RR · built 1965 | 2,432 vehicles a day |
| CSAH 31 over CROW RIVER · built 1962 | 810 vehicles a day |
| CSAH 6 over N FK CROW RIVER · built 1963 | 255 vehicles a day |
| CR 132 over JUD DITCH # 1 · built 1957 | 205 vehicles a day |
| T 63 over CO DITCH # 70 · built 1978 | 94 vehicles a day |
| CR 84 over DITCH · built 1966 | 70 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $43.3 million of work in Kandiyohi County in fiscal 2025, about $991 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 Kandiyohi 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 Kandiyohi County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Meeker County (23 mi) · Chippewa County (29 mi) · Renville County (30 mi) · Stearns County (34 mi) · Swift County (34 mi) · Pope County (37 mi).