10,197 people (2024 Census estimate, −5.6% since 2020)
2,355 square miles of land · 4 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.
4 active community water systems list Roosevelt County in the area they serve, reporting 4,519 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| DRY PRAIRIE RURAL WATER AUTHORITY buys surface water · public/private · MT0004348 | 3,005 served |
| CULBERTSON TOWN OF buys surface water · local government · MT0000192 | 714 served |
| FROID TOWN OF buys surface water · local government · MT0000221 | 450 served |
| BAINVILLE TOWN OF buys surface water · local government · MT0000020 | 350 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 45 people were held in Roosevelt County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 722 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 23.
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.
12 school districts have their office in Roosevelt County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $14.7 million — $13.4 million to run schools, about $22,549 per student, plus $1.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.2 million local (mostly property tax), $4.6 million state, $9.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $88,000.
Spent $9.3 million — $8.2 million to run schools, about $16,053 per student, plus $1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.4 million local (mostly property tax), $3.4 million state, $5.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $85,000.
Spent $5.1 million — $5 million to run schools, about $18,170 per student, plus $94,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $874,000 local (mostly property tax), $2.1 million state, $2.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $61,000.
Spent $4.1 million — $3.9 million to run schools, about $17,182 per student, plus $231,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.6 million local (mostly property tax), $1.9 million state, $1.7 million federal.
Spent $3.3 million — $3.2 million to run schools, about $17,251 per student, plus $18,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1 million local (mostly property tax), $1.9 million state, $281,000 federal. Long-term debt: $1.2 million.
Spent $4.8 million — $4.4 million to run schools, about $27,911 per student, plus $379,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $951,000 local (mostly property tax), $3.4 million state, $315,000 federal. Long-term debt: $659,000.
Spent $3 million — $2.9 million to run schools, about $22,488 per student, plus $122,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $811,000 local (mostly property tax), $841,000 state, $1.4 million federal.
Spent $3.4 million — $3.2 million to run schools, about $30,876 per student, plus $179,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $385,000 local (mostly property tax), $765,000 state, $1.9 million federal.
And 4 more.
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 Roosevelt County about $10.1 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.
57 bridges in Roosevelt County: 14 in good condition, 36 fair, and 7 poor (12.3%). “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 CHELSEA CREEK · built 1960 | 2,054 vehicles a day |
| IRR - US 2 over DRAINAGE · built 1970 | 1,452 vehicles a day |
| POPLAR RIVER RD over POPLAR RIVER 015 · built 1985 | 563 vehicles a day |
| IRR - S 13 over SPRAGUE COULEE · built 1931 | 229 vehicles a day |
| IRR - S 13 over W FORK POPLAR R OVRFLOW · built 1932 | 229 vehicles a day |
| IRR - S 251 over HAY CREEK · built 1950 | 88 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $32.7 million of work in Roosevelt County in fiscal 2025, about $3,030 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 Roosevelt 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 Roosevelt County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Sheridan County (36 mi) · Richland County (40 mi) · Daniels County (43 mi) · McCone County (57 mi) · Williams County, ND (69 mi) · Dawson County (70 mi).