29,458 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.8% since 2020)
449 square miles of land · 66 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.
11 active community water systems list Le Sueur County in the area they serve, reporting 22,484 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| New Prague groundwater · local government · MN1400013 | 8,247 served |
| LeSueur groundwater · local government · MN1400010 | 4,170 served |
| Montgomery groundwater · local government · MN1400012 | 3,379 served |
| Le Center groundwater · local government · MN1400008 | 2,544 served |
| Waterville groundwater · local government · MN1400015 | 1,868 served |
| Cleveland groundwater · local government · MN1400001 | 719 served |
| Kasota groundwater · local government · MN1400005 | 670 served |
| Elysian groundwater · local government · MN1400003 | 656 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 13 people were held in Le Sueur County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 72 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 22.
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 Le Sueur County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $33.8 million — $24.9 million to run schools, about $12,717 per student, plus $4.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8.8 million local (mostly property tax), $20.6 million state, $3.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $71 million.
Spent $18.1 million — $12.2 million to run schools, about $13,407 per student, plus $4.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.1 million local (mostly property tax), $9.8 million state, $1.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $5.5 million.
Spent $13.5 million — $10.9 million to run schools, about $14,226 per student, plus $1.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.6 million local (mostly property tax), $7.4 million state, $1.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $16.6 million.
Spent $9.3 million — $7.3 million to run schools, about $12,048 per student, plus $607,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.2 million local (mostly property tax), $5.8 million state, $484,000 federal. Long-term debt: $17.9 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 Le Sueur County about $14 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.
68 bridges in Le Sueur County: 33 in good condition, 33 fair, and 2 poor (2.9%). “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 19 over SAND CREEK · built 1954 | 6,395 vehicles a day |
| CR 137 over SAND CREEK · built 1964 | 162 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $11.6 million of work in Le Sueur County in fiscal 2025, about $404 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 Le Sueur 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 Le Sueur County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Rice County (21 mi) · Scott County (22 mi) · Nicollet County (25 mi) · Waseca County (25 mi) · Sibley County (28 mi) · Blue Earth County (29 mi).