55,990 people (2024 Census estimate, +7.7% since 2020)
18,182 square miles of land · 3 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.
26 active community water systems list Nye County in the area they serve, reporting 26,819 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| GREAT BASIN WATER COMPANY groundwater · private · NV0000270 | 12,255 served |
| MOUNTAIN FALLS WATER SYSTEM GBWC groundwater · private · NV0000920 | 4,345 served |
| TONOPAH PUBLIC UTILITIES groundwater · local government · NV0000237 | 2,853 served |
| ROUND MOUNTAIN PUC groundwater · private · NV0004074 | 1,200 served |
| DESERT UTILITIES groundwater · private · NV0000300 | 1,086 served |
| COUNTRY VIEW ESTATES GBWC groundwater · private · NV0005032 | 1,072 served |
| BEATTY WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT groundwater · local government · NV0000009 | 1,024 served |
| PAHRUMP UTILITY COMPANY INC groundwater · private · NV0000926 | 985 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 250 people were held in Nye County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 811 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 173.
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.
1 school district has its office in Nye County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $84.8 million — $82.2 million to run schools, about $14,075 per student, plus $2.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $795,000 local (mostly property tax), $69.3 million state, $15.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $60.5 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: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Nye County about $24.5 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.
22 bridges in Nye County: 13 in good condition, 9 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 $6.8 million of work in Nye County in fiscal 2025, about $132 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 Nevada 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 Nye 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 Nye County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Esmeralda County (65 mi) · Lincoln County (90 mi) · Inyo County, CA (110 mi) · Mineral County (113 mi) · White Pine County (131 mi) · Mono County, CA (131 mi).