14,453 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.6% since 2020)
983 square miles of land · 15 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 Renville County in the area they serve, reporting 9,630 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| Olivia groundwater · local government · MN1650011 | 2,353 served |
| Renville groundwater · local government · MN1650012 | 1,301 served |
| Fairfax groundwater · local government · MN1650005 | 1,295 served |
| Hector groundwater · local government · MN1650009 | 1,127 served |
| Bird Island groundwater · local government · MN1650001 | 1,024 served |
| Buffalo Lake groundwater · local government · MN1650003 | 703 served |
| Franklin groundwater · local government · MN1650006 | 496 served |
| Sacred Heart groundwater · local government · MN1650013 | 485 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 22 people were held in Renville County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 253 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 67.
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.
3 school districts have their office in Renville County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $10.6 million — $8.7 million to run schools, about $13,947 per student, plus $449,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.9 million local (mostly property tax), $6.3 million state, $1.1 million federal.
Spent $10.4 million — $8.4 million to run schools, about $14,472 per student, plus $1.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.6 million local (mostly property tax), $6.4 million state, $1.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $12 million.
Spent $8.5 million — $7.1 million to run schools, about $15,096 per student, plus $520,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.3 million local (mostly property tax), $5.1 million state, $1.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.3 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 Renville County about $11.9 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
139 bridges in Renville County: 96 in good condition, 34 fair, and 9 poor (6.5%). “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 2 over BEAVER CREEK · built 1965 | 225 vehicles a day |
| CSAH 19 over BIRCH COULEE CREEK · built 1960 | 160 vehicles a day |
| CSAH 11 over HAWK CREEK · built 1959 | 150 vehicles a day |
| T 101 over TIMMS CREEK · built 1960 | 31 vehicles a day |
| CR 81 over STREAM · built 1958 | 30 vehicles a day |
| CSAH 15 over MIDDLE CREEK · built 1958 | 30 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $1.1 million of work in Renville County in fiscal 2025, about $76 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 Renville 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 Renville County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Redwood County (27 mi) · Kandiyohi County (30 mi) · McLeod County (34 mi) · Meeker County (35 mi) · Brown County (35 mi) · Chippewa County (37 mi).