21,546 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.0% since 2020)
2,222 square miles of land · 10 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 Stutsman County in the area they serve, reporting 21,838 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| JAMESTOWN CITY OF groundwater · local government · ND4700498 | 15,427 served |
| STUTSMAN RURAL WATER DISTRICT groundwater · private · ND4701303 | 5,550 served |
| MEDINA CITY OF groundwater · local government · ND4700637 | 308 served |
| STREETER CITY OF groundwater · local government · ND4700922 | 170 served |
| KENSAL CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · ND4700519 | 163 served |
| MONTPELIER CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · ND4701151 | 87 served |
| CLEVELAND CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · ND4700188 | 83 served |
| WOODWORTH CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · ND4701042 | 50 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 41 people were held in Stutsman County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 301 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 70.
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 Stutsman County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $39 million — $30.3 million to run schools, about $13,986 per student, plus $7.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11.3 million local (mostly property tax), $20.5 million state, $3.6 million federal.
Spent $4 million — $3.5 million to run schools, about $16,536 per student, plus $330,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.3 million local (mostly property tax), $2.3 million state, $516,000 federal.
Spent $3.3 million — $2.8 million to run schools, about $16,536 per student, plus $258,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.1 million local (mostly property tax), $1.9 million state, $81,000 federal.
Spent $2.4 million — $2 million to run schools, about $17,186 per student, plus $237,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $592,000 local (mostly property tax), $1.3 million state, $326,000 federal.
Spent $1.1 million — $791,000 to run schools, about $27,276 per student, plus $222,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $537,000 local (mostly property tax), $397,000 state, $70,000 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 Stutsman County about $16.3 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
78 bridges in Stutsman County: 32 in good condition, 39 fair, and 7 poor (9.0%). “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.
| COUNTY HIGHWAY over I-94/ELDRIDGE TWP INT · built 1959 | 250 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY HIGHWAY over BEAVER CREEK · built 1962 | 210 vehicles a day |
| PARK ROAD over JAMESTOWN RESERVOIR · built 1901 | 135 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY HIGHWAY over PIPESTEM CREEK · built 1970 | 65 vehicles a day |
| TOWNSHIP ROAD over PIPESTEM CREEK · built 1950 | 26 vehicles a day |
| GRAVEL ROAD over JAMES RIVER · built 1915 | 25 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $15.4 million of work in Stutsman County in fiscal 2025, about $715 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 Stutsman 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 Stutsman County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Foster County (35 mi) · Kidder County (37 mi) · LaMoure County (40 mi) · Barnes County (42 mi) · Logan County (43 mi) · Griggs County (48 mi).