3,797 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.7% since 2020)
1,298 square miles of land · 3 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.
2 active community water systems list Lake of the Woods County in the area they serve, reporting 1,002 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| Baudette groundwater · local government · MN1390001 | 947 served |
| Anchor Bay Park groundwater · private · MN1390002 | 55 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 1 people were held in Lake of the Woods County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 46 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 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.
1 school district has its office in Lake of the Woods County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $9 million — $7.4 million to run schools, about $16,661 per student, plus $560,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.9 million local (mostly property tax), $5 million state, $679,000 federal. Long-term debt: $21 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 Lake of the Woods County about $4.9 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.
61 bridges in Lake of the Woods County: 36 in good condition, 22 fair, and 3 poor (4.9%). “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.
| MN 11 over SILVER CREEK · built 1985 | 820 vehicles a day |
| CSAH 1 over S BR RAPID RIVER · built 1960 | 125 vehicles a day |
| CSAH 14 over WINTER ROAD RIVER · built 1982 | 105 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $66,224 of work in Lake of the Woods County in fiscal 2025, about $18 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 Lake of the Woods 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 Lake of the Woods County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Roseau County (42 mi) · Beltrami County (61 mi) · Koochiching County (62 mi) · Pennington County (71 mi) · Marshall County (72 mi) · Red Lake County (82 mi).