6,636 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.0% since 2020)
765 square miles of land · 9 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 Lac qui Parle County in the area they serve, reporting 3,481 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| Madison groundwater · local government · MN1370004 | 1,511 served |
| Dawson groundwater · local government · MN1370003 | 1,466 served |
| Bellingham groundwater · local government · MN1370001 | 168 served |
| Boyd buys groundwater · local government · MN1370002 | 141 served |
| Marietta buys groundwater · local government · MN1370005 | 135 served |
| Nassau buys groundwater · local government · MN1370006 | 60 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 5 people were held in Lac qui Parle County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 136 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 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.
2 school districts have their office in Lac qui Parle County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $15.9 million — $11.9 million to run schools, about $14,825 per student, plus $1.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.9 million local (mostly property tax), $11.3 million state, $1.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $43.4 million.
Spent $13.9 million — $8.5 million to run schools, about $15,410 per student, plus $3.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.1 million local (mostly property tax), $7.8 million state, $952,000 federal. Long-term debt: $23.4 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Lac qui Parle County about $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.
174 bridges in Lac qui Parle County: 130 in good condition, 34 fair, and 10 poor (5.7%). “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 38 over CO DITCH # 3 · built 1974 | 105 vehicles a day |
| T 2 over STREAM · built 1973 | 89 vehicles a day |
| CSAH 21 over DITCH · built 1973 | 65 vehicles a day |
| T 52C over CANBY CREEK · built 1964 | 50 vehicles a day |
| T 59 over DITCH · built 1967 | 50 vehicles a day |
| T 65 over STREAM · built 1974 | 30 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $3.7 million of work in Lac qui Parle County in fiscal 2025, about $554 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 Lac qui Parle 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 Lac qui Parle County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Yellow Medicine County (25 mi) · Chippewa County (30 mi) · Deuel County, SD (30 mi) · Swift County (30 mi) · Big Stone County (31 mi) · Grant County, SD (31 mi).