3,992 people (2024 Census estimate, −4.7% since 2020)
1,099 square miles of land · 4 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.
6 active community water systems list Kittson County in the area they serve, reporting 5,018 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| Kittson Marshall Water groundwater · local government · MN1350006 | 2,752 served |
| Hallock buys groundwater · local government · MN1350001 | 823 served |
| Karlstad groundwater · local government · MN1350002 | 713 served |
| Lancaster buys groundwater · local government · MN1350005 | 356 served |
| Lake Bronson buys groundwater · local government · MN1350004 | 193 served |
| Kennedy buys groundwater · local government · MN1350003 | 181 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 3 people were held in Kittson County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 123 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 3.
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 Kittson County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $5.2 million — $4.7 million to run schools, about $19,289 per student, plus $158,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.7 million local (mostly property tax), $3.4 million state, $318,000 federal. Long-term debt: $3.6 million.
Spent $4.2 million — $3.6 million to run schools, about $18,974 per student, plus $209,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.2 million local (mostly property tax), $2.8 million state, $485,000 federal. Long-term debt: $2.9 million.
Spent $4 million — $3.4 million to run schools, about $18,790 per student, plus $274,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.1 million local (mostly property tax), $2.5 million state, $245,000 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 Kittson County about $5.5 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.
160 bridges in Kittson County: 116 in good condition, 41 fair, and 3 poor (1.9%). “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.
| T 310 over N BR TWO RIVERS · built 1907 | 12 vehicles a day |
| T 110 over JOE RIVER · built 1968 | 8 vehicles a day |
| T 185 over JOE RIVER · built 1968 | 8 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $1.3 million of work in Kittson County in fiscal 2025, about $304 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 Kittson 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 Kittson County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Marshall County (34 mi) · Pembina County, ND (35 mi) · Roseau County (44 mi) · Walsh County, ND (51 mi) · Pennington County (59 mi) · Grand Forks County, ND (66 mi).