9,100 people (2024 Census estimate, −3.3% since 2020)
465 square miles of land · 20 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.
10 active community water systems list Pipestone County in the area they serve, reporting 6,985 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| Pipestone groundwater · local government · MN1590005 | 4,273 served |
| Edgerton groundwater · local government · MN1590001 | 1,281 served |
| Jasper buys groundwater · local government · MN1590004 | 623 served |
| Ruthton groundwater · local government · MN1590007 | 220 served |
| Holland buys groundwater · local government · MN1590010 | 187 served |
| Woodstock buys groundwater · local government · MN1590009 | 108 served |
| Heartland Colony groundwater · private · MN1590012 | 90 served |
| Trosky buys groundwater · local government · MN1590008 | 86 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 15 people were held in Pipestone County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 283 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 7.
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 Pipestone County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $19.4 million — $15.6 million to run schools, about $14,158 per student, plus $1.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.8 million local (mostly property tax), $13.1 million state, $2.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $27.5 million.
Spent $7.5 million — $6.5 million to run schools, about $14,882 per student, plus $838,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.3 million local (mostly property tax), $5 million state, $625,000 federal. Long-term debt: $597,000.
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 Pipestone County about $7.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
185 bridges in Pipestone County: 122 in good condition, 57 fair, and 6 poor (3.2%). “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 22 over MAIN DITCH · built 1970 | 475 vehicles a day |
| CSAH 15 over TRIB SPLIT ROCK CREEK · built 1930 | 205 vehicles a day |
| T 302 over TRIB REDWOOD RIVER · built 1941 | 70 vehicles a day |
| CR 59 over TRIB POPLAR CREEK · built 1943 | 56 vehicles a day |
| T 280 over N BR PIPESTONE CREEK · built 1954 | 25 vehicles a day |
| T 18 over ROCK RIVER · built 1984 | 22 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $4.6 million of work in Pipestone County in fiscal 2025, about $486 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 Pipestone 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 Pipestone County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Moody County, SD (21 mi) · Rock County (24 mi) · Murray County (25 mi) · Lincoln County (27 mi) · Nobles County (34 mi) · Lyon County (34 mi).