2,419 people (2024 Census estimate, −2.0% since 2020)
1,132 square miles of land · 2 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.
3 active community water systems list Hettinger County in the area they serve, reporting 1,481 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MOTT CITY OF buys surface water · local government · ND2100704 | 721 served |
| NEW ENGLAND CITY OF buys surface water · local government · ND2100726 | 600 served |
| REGENT CITY OF buys surface water · local government · ND2100816 | 160 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 4 people were held in Hettinger County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 285 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 3.
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 Hettinger County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $5.5 million — $4.6 million to run schools, about $15,668 per student, plus $479,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.4 million local (mostly property tax), $2.5 million state, $538,000 federal. Long-term debt: $278,000.
Spent $4.7 million — $3.8 million to run schools, about $16,352 per student, plus $334,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.4 million local (mostly property tax), $2.2 million state, $875,000 federal. Long-term debt: $2.6 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 Hettinger County about $3.9 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
64 bridges in Hettinger County: 21 in good condition, 34 fair, and 9 poor (14.1%). “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.
| MAIN ST over CANNONBALL RIVER · built 1912 | 50 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD over CANNONBALL RIVER · built 1944 | 26 vehicles a day |
| 95th Avenue SW over CREEK · built 1960 | 20 vehicles a day |
| 93RD AVE SW over CREEK · built 1948 | 20 vehicles a day |
| 107TH AVE SW over THIRTY MILE CREEK · built 1940 | 15 vehicles a day |
| 94th Avenue SW over THIRTY MILE CREEK · built 1941 | 15 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $-228,488 of work in Hettinger County in fiscal 2025, about $-92 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 Hettinger 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 Hettinger County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Adams County (24 mi) · Stark County (28 mi) · Grant County (39 mi) · Slope County (48 mi) · Bowman County (55 mi) · Morton County (58 mi).