30,319 people (2024 Census estimate, +4.9% since 2020)
1,411 square miles of land · 21 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 Pine County in the area they serve, reporting 11,022 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| Pine City groundwater · local government · MN1580008 | 3,458 served |
| Hinckley groundwater · local government · MN1580005 | 1,964 served |
| Federal Correctional Institution groundwater · private · MN1580012 | 1,587 served |
| Sandstone groundwater · local government · MN1580010 | 1,425 served |
| Willow River groundwater · local government · MN1580020 | 410 served |
| Sturgeon Lake groundwater · local government · MN1580021 | 406 served |
| Pokegama Lake Resort and MHP groundwater · private · MN1580019 | 400 served |
| Askov groundwater · local government · MN1580001 | 364 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 47 people were held in Pine County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 256 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 95.
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 Pine County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $24.9 million — $22.1 million to run schools, about $13,918 per student, plus $1.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.2 million local (mostly property tax), $17.3 million state, $1.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $21.7 million.
Spent $17.7 million — $15 million to run schools, about $14,816 per student, plus $1.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.5 million local (mostly property tax), $11.4 million state, $2.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $18.9 million.
Spent $15.5 million — $11 million to run schools, about $14,185 per student, plus $3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.6 million local (mostly property tax), $9.2 million state, $1 million federal. Long-term debt: $19.5 million.
Spent $7 million — $6.1 million to run schools, about $14,797 per student, plus $419,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.7 million local (mostly property tax), $4.9 million state, $659,000 federal. Long-term debt: $5.4 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: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Pine County about $21.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
172 bridges in Pine County: 110 in good condition, 55 fair, and 7 poor (4.1%). “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.
| I 35 over GRINDSTONE RIVER · built 1960 | 8,150 vehicles a day |
| CSAH 61 over SNAKE RIVER · built 1976 | 5,576 vehicles a day |
| CSAH 14 over MISSION CREEK · built 1967 | 561 vehicles a day |
| CSAH 46 over MOOSE HORN RIVER · built 1971 | 394 vehicles a day |
| M 4 over WILLOW RIVER · built 1924 | 80 vehicles a day |
| SPR 15 over HAY CREEK · built 1937 | 40 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $6.6 million of work in Pine County in fiscal 2025, about $230 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 Pine 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 Pine County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Burnett County, WI (25 mi) · Kanabec County (28 mi) · Carlton County (35 mi) · Chisago County (42 mi) · Mille Lacs County (43 mi) · Isanti County (45 mi).