11,692 people (2024 Census estimate, −4.2% since 2020)
903 square miles of land · 13 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.
5 active community water systems list Rolette County in the area they serve, reporting 3,548 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| ROLLA CITY OF groundwater · local government · ND4000834 | 1,280 served |
| DUNSEITH CITY OF groundwater · local government · ND4000277 | 773 served |
| ALL SEASONS WD-SYSTEM IV groundwater · private · ND4001153 | 670 served |
| ROLETTE CITY OF groundwater · local government · ND4000833 | 484 served |
| ST JOHN CITY OF groundwater · local government · ND4000854 | 341 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 25 people were held in Rolette County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 340 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 19.
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 Rolette County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $39.7 million — $35.9 million to run schools, about $22,582 per student, plus $3.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $512,000 local (mostly property tax), $15.2 million state, $27.1 million federal.
Spent $18.6 million — $12.8 million to run schools, about $23,276 per student, plus $4.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $835,000 local (mostly property tax), $7.5 million state, $11.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $650,000.
Spent $13.3 million — $9 million to run schools, about $20,163 per student, plus $4.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $649,000 local (mostly property tax), $4.1 million state, $8.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.7 million.
Spent $5.2 million — $4.7 million to run schools, about $18,340 per student, plus $307,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2 million local (mostly property tax), $2.4 million state, $1.2 million federal.
Spent $4.2 million — $3.1 million to run schools, about $22,187 per student, plus $1.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $975,000 local (mostly property tax), $2 million state, $955,000 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 Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Rolette County about $10.7 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.
18 bridges in Rolette County: 11 in good condition, 7 fair, and 0 poor (0.0%). “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.
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $50.4 million of work in Rolette County in fiscal 2025, about $4,136 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 Rolette 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 Rolette County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Towner County (28 mi) · Pierce County (37 mi) · Bottineau County (45 mi) · McHenry County (52 mi) · Benson County (53 mi) · Ramsey County (61 mi).