103,107 people (2024 Census estimate, +4.6% since 2020)
1,633 square miles of land · 63 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 Burleigh County in the area they serve, reporting 92,424 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| BISMARCK CITY OF groundwater (surface-influenced) · local government · ND0800080 | 72,417 served |
| SOUTH CENTRAL RWD NORTH BURLEIGH groundwater (surface-influenced) · private · ND0801502 | 10,400 served |
| LINCOLN CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · ND0800570 | 4,257 served |
| SOUTH CENTRAL REGIONAL WATER DISTRICT buys groundwater · private · ND0801154 | 3,700 served |
| WILTON CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · ND0801031 | 711 served |
| IMPERIAL VALLEY WATER CO buys groundwater · private · ND0800083 | 345 served |
| APPLE VALLEY COOP buys groundwater · private · ND0800648 | 200 served |
| COUNTRY CLUB CO-OP buys groundwater · private · ND0800144 | 162 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 230 people were held in Burleigh County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 369 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 274.
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.
7 school districts have their office in Burleigh County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $248.4 million — $203.5 million to run schools, about $14,558 per student, plus $35.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $75.4 million local (mostly property tax), $129.9 million state, $30.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $109.6 million.
Spent $2 million — $1.9 million to run schools, about $24,671 per student, plus $74,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $621,000 local (mostly property tax), $1.2 million state, $167,000 federal.
Spent $1.5 million — $1 million to run schools, about $15,382 per student, plus $41,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $670,000 local (mostly property tax), $869,000 state, $112,000 federal.
Spent $878,000 — $761,000 to run schools, about $13,121 per student, plus $15,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $272,000 local (mostly property tax), $740,000 state, $56,000 federal.
Spent $423,000 — $369,000 to run schools, about $11,531 per student, plus $19,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $60,000 local (mostly property tax), $405,000 state, $20,000 federal.
Spent $348,000 — $314,000 to run schools, about $14,952 per student, plus $5,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $63,000 local (mostly property tax), $275,000 state, $42,000 federal.
Spent $673,000 — $526,000 to run schools, about $27,684 per student, plus $23,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $409,000 local (mostly property tax), $75,000 state, $66,000 federal.
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 Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Burleigh County about $71.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
113 bridges in Burleigh County: 55 in good condition, 55 fair, and 3 poor (2.7%). “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.
| APPLE CREEK RD over APPLE CREEK · built 1965 | 518 vehicles a day |
| 275TH ST SE over CREEK · built 1935 | 40 vehicles a day |
| 102ND AVE SE over LONG LAKE · built 1955 | 30 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $915.5 million of work in Burleigh County in fiscal 2025, about $9,298 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 North Dakota 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 Burleigh 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 Burleigh County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Kidder County (35 mi) · Oliver County (42 mi) · Sheridan County (42 mi) · Morton County (44 mi) · Emmons County (49 mi) · Wells County (56 mi).