4,214 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.1% since 2020)
5,140 square miles of land · 1 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.
7 active community water systems list Phillips County in the area they serve, reporting 2,411 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MALTA CITY OF groundwater · local government · MT0000284 | 1,800 served |
| SACO TOWN OF groundwater · local government · MT0000323 | 180 served |
| PHILLIPS COUNTY ZORTMAN WATER AND SEWER groundwater · local government · MT0001623 | 169 served |
| DODSON TOWN OF groundwater · local government · MT0000203 | 120 served |
| CAMP CREEK WUA INC buys groundwater · local government · MT0004378 | 50 served |
| EAST MALTA COLONY groundwater · private · MT0001769 | 47 served |
| LORING HUTTERIAN BRETHREN INC groundwater · private · MT0003524 | 45 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 2 people were held in Phillips County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2013), or 77 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2008 it was about 2.
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.
5 school districts have their office in Phillips County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $8.2 million — $6.9 million to run schools, about $13,218 per student, plus $1.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3 million local (mostly property tax), $3.5 million state, $863,000 federal. Long-term debt: $373,000.
Spent $2.7 million — $2.6 million to run schools, about $28,196 per student, plus $74,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $745,000 local (mostly property tax), $946,000 state, $1.4 million federal.
Spent $1.6 million — $1.6 million to run schools, about $40,128 per student, plus $30,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $901,000 local (mostly property tax), $770,000 state, $80,000 federal. Long-term debt: $27,000.
Spent $1.2 million — $1 million to run schools, about $27,132 per student, plus $121,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $542,000 local (mostly property tax), $494,000 state, $228,000 federal. Long-term debt: $117,000.
Spent $823,000 — $747,000 to run schools, about $74,700 per student, plus $20,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $345,000 local (mostly property tax), $525,000 state, $12,000 federal. Long-term debt: $117,000.
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 Phillips County about $7.7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
101 bridges in Phillips County: 13 in good condition, 66 fair, and 22 poor (21.8%). “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.
| IRR - US 2 over DRAINAGE · built 1973 | 1,351 vehicles a day |
| IRR - US 191 over WILD HORSE CREEK · built 1941 | 395 vehicles a day |
| IRR - US 191 over WILD HORSE CREEK · built 1940 | 395 vehicles a day |
| IRR BIA ROUTE 8 over PEOPLES CREEK · built 1976 | 200 vehicles a day |
| YOUTH RANCH RD over WHITEWATER CREEK 110 · built 1977 | 100 vehicles a day |
| CONTENT RD over SAGE CREEK OVERFLOW 055 · built 1983 | 100 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $7.8 million of work in Phillips County in fiscal 2025, about $1,853 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 Montana 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 Phillips 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 Phillips County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Blaine County (49 mi) · Valley County (58 mi) · Petroleum County (78 mi) · Garfield County (80 mi) · Fergus County (93 mi) · Hill County (103 mi).