6,588 people (2024 Census estimate, −3.5% since 2020)
1,119 square miles of land · 6 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.
8 active community water systems list Pembina County in the area they serve, reporting 7,930 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| NORTHEAST RWD- NORTH VALLEY BRANCH groundwater · private · ND3401128 | 3,422 served |
| CAVALIER CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · ND3400170 | 1,302 served |
| WALHALLA CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · ND3400980 | 996 served |
| DRAYTON CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · ND3400269 | 824 served |
| PEMBINA CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · ND3400777 | 592 served |
| NECHE CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · ND3400720 | 371 served |
| ST THOMAS CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · ND3400856 | 331 served |
| MOUNTAIN CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · ND3400707 | 92 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 10 people were held in Pembina County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 246 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 9.
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.
4 school districts have their office in Pembina County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $6.6 million — $5.8 million to run schools, about $14,085 per student, plus $104,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.3 million local (mostly property tax), $3.6 million state, $713,000 federal. Long-term debt: $3.1 million.
Spent $6.9 million — $6.1 million to run schools, about $18,809 per student, plus $271,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.3 million local (mostly property tax), $4.1 million state, $421,000 federal.
Spent $4.3 million — $3.8 million to run schools, about $18,145 per student, plus $236,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.4 million local (mostly property tax), $2.3 million state, $484,000 federal.
Spent $4.7 million — $3.8 million to run schools, about $21,864 per student, plus $644,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.5 million local (mostly property tax), $2 million state, $768,000 federal. Long-term debt: $1.9 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 Pembina County about $6.4 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.
203 bridges in Pembina County: 40 in good condition, 116 fair, and 47 poor (23.2%). “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.
| INTERSTATE 29 over DRAIN DITCH #39 · built 1958 | 2,850 vehicles a day |
| CITY STREET over TONGUE RIVER · built 1907 | 397 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY HIGHWAY over WILLOW CREEK · built 1950 | 240 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY HIGHWAY 12 over DRAIN DITCH · built 1967 | 167 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY HIGHWAY over CART CREEK · built 1927 | 120 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY HIGHWAY over TONGUE RIVER · built 1967 | 108 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $12.3 million of work in Pembina County in fiscal 2025, about $1,795 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 Pembina 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 Pembina County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Walsh County (28 mi) · Kittson County, MN (35 mi) · Cavalier County (42 mi) · Grand Forks County (58 mi) · Marshall County, MN (61 mi) · Ramsey County (64 mi).