3,710 people (2024 Census estimate, −3.5% since 2020)
858 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.
5 active community water systems list Sargent County in the area they serve, reporting 2,183 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| GWINNER CITY OF groundwater · local government · ND4100428 | 753 served |
| MILNOR CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · ND4101425 | 653 served |
| FORMAN CITY OF groundwater · local government · ND4100357 | 504 served |
| RUTLAND CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · ND4100848 | 163 served |
| SUNDALE HUTTERIAN ASSOCIATION groundwater · local government · ND4101452 | 110 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 2 people were held in Sargent County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (1970), or 59 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64.
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.
3 school districts have their office in Sargent County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $4.4 million — $4 million to run schools, about $18,981 per student, plus $171,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.2 million local (mostly property tax), $2.5 million state, $553,000 federal.
Spent $5 million — $4.1 million to run schools, about $21,529 per student, plus $498,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.2 million local (mostly property tax), $1.8 million state, $433,000 federal. Long-term debt: $250,000.
Spent $4.3 million — $3.6 million to run schools, about $19,242 per student, plus $531,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.1 million local (mostly property tax), $2.3 million state, $683,000 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Sargent County about $5.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
31 bridges in Sargent County: 17 in good condition, 8 fair, and 6 poor (19.4%). “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.
| ND HIGHWAY 11 over WILD RICE RIVER · built 1951 | 650 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD over WILD RICE CREEK · built 1935 | 28 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY HIGHWAY over WILD RICE RIVER · built 1967 | 20 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY HIGHWAY over BR. OF WILD RICE RIVER · built 1950 | 10 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY HIGHWAY over WILD RICE RIVER · built 1952 | 5 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY HIGHWAY over WILD RICE RIVER · built 1949 | 5 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $2.7 million of work in Sargent County in fiscal 2025, about $705 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 Sargent 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 Sargent County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Ransom County (24 mi) · Marshall County, SD (26 mi) · Richland County (35 mi) · Dickey County (41 mi) · Roberts County, SD (47 mi) · LaMoure County (49 mi).