10,214 people (2024 Census estimate, −2.9% since 2020)
1,282 square miles of land · 8 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.
4 active community water systems list Walsh County in the area they serve, reporting 9,291 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| GRAFTON CITY OF surface water · local government · ND5000408 | 4,284 served |
| WALSH RURAL WATER DISTRICT buys groundwater · private · ND5001075 | 3,000 served |
| PARK RIVER CITY OF groundwater · local government · ND5000773 | 1,403 served |
| MINTO CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · ND5000691 | 604 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 16 people were held in Walsh County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 251 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 21.
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 Walsh County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $16.1 million — $11.3 million to run schools, about $11,865 per student, plus $2.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.3 million local (mostly property tax), $9.5 million state, $3.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $3.1 million.
Spent $7.6 million — $5.6 million to run schools, about $11,522 per student, plus $311,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.5 million local (mostly property tax), $4.3 million state, $1 million federal. Long-term debt: $8 million.
Spent $8.4 million — $3.9 million to run schools, about $12,581 per student, plus $3.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.4 million local (mostly property tax), $3.4 million state, $2 million federal.
Spent $1.5 million — $1.4 million to run schools, about $27,120 per student, plus $83,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $540,000 local (mostly property tax), $798,000 state, $13,000 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 Walsh County about $12.1 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.
257 bridges in Walsh County: 68 in good condition, 135 fair, and 54 poor (21.0%). “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 ROAD over CREEK · built 1935 | 400 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD over CREEK · built 1940 | 300 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY HIGHWAY over MIDDLE BRANCH PARK RIVER · built 1957 | 266 vehicles a day |
| CITY STREET over DRAIN DITCH · built 1978 | 110 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD over MIDDLE BRANCH PARK RIVER · built 1981 | 40 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD over CREEK · built 1940 | 30 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $8.8 million of work in Walsh County in fiscal 2025, about $835 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 Walsh 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 Walsh County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
More of North Dakota: the state government and every county in North Dakota.
Nearby counties: Pembina County (28 mi) · Grand Forks County (34 mi) · Nelson County (39 mi) · Cavalier County (43 mi) · Ramsey County (47 mi) · Kittson County, MN (51 mi).