16,750 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.1% since 2020)
3,068 square miles of land · 5 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.
9 active community water systems list Baker County in the area they serve, reporting 12,178 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| BAKER CITY surface water · local government · OR4100073 | 10,349 served |
| HUNTINGTON, CITY OF groundwater · local government · OR4100393 | 510 served |
| HAINES, CITY OF groundwater · local government · OR4100362 | 395 served |
| HALFWAY, CITY OF groundwater · local government · OR4100363 | 346 served |
| SUMPTER, CITY OF surface water · local government · OR4100845 | 208 served |
| RICHLAND, CITY OF groundwater (surface-influenced) · local government · OR4100703 | 165 served |
| WESTERN HEIGHTS WATER COMPANY groundwater · private · OR4101358 | 90 served |
| IDAHO POWER-OXBOW VILLAGE groundwater · private · OR4100384 | 75 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 18 people were held in Baker County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 189 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 32.
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 Baker County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $73.8 million — $65.5 million to run schools, about $14,704 per student, plus $5.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $14.8 million local (mostly property tax), $54.1 million state, $7.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $27.3 million.
Spent $5.2 million — $4.8 million to run schools, about $24,376 per student, plus $392,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.7 million local (mostly property tax), $3 million state, $482,000 federal.
Spent $2.9 million — $2.9 million to run schools, about $35,691 per student, plus $6,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $966,000 local (mostly property tax), $1.9 million state, $282,000 federal.
Spent $1.6 million — $1.6 million to run schools, about $57,630 per student, plus $18,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $491,000 local (mostly property tax), $1.1 million state, $141,000 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 Baker County about $12.2 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
188 bridges in Baker County: 55 in good condition, 124 fair, and 9 poor (4.8%). “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.
| C-584 NON-FA over S FK BURNT R (ROUSE RD) · built 1979 | 193 vehicles a day |
| 1123 BRIDGEPORT LN over BURNT R · built 1972 | 116 vehicles a day |
| 1123 BRIDGEPORT LN over BURNT R · built 1972 | 116 vehicles a day |
| C-553 NON-FA over CRACKER CR(CRACKER CR RD · built 1964 | 85 vehicles a day |
| C-553 NON-FA over CRACKER CR(CRACKER CR RD · built 1967 | 85 vehicles a day |
| C1135-BIDWELL LN over OVERFLOW (POWDER RIVER) · built 1966 | 61 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $5.4 million of work in Baker County in fiscal 2025, about $324 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 Oregon 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 Baker 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 Baker County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Union County (44 mi) · Washington County, ID (47 mi) · Adams County, ID (62 mi) · Wallowa County (66 mi) · Grant County (66 mi) · Payette County, ID (67 mi).