64,326 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.0% since 2020)
1,596 square miles of land · 40 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.
23 active community water systems list Coos County in the area they serve, reporting 48,384 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| COOS BAY NORTH BEND WTR BRD surface water · local government · OR4100205 | 34,500 served |
| COQUILLE, CITY OF surface water · local government · OR4100213 | 3,953 served |
| BANDON, CITY OF surface water · local government · OR4100074 | 3,000 served |
| MYRTLE POINT, CITY OF surface water · local government · OR4100551 | 2,656 served |
| LAKESIDE WATER DISTRICT surface water · private · OR4100463 | 1,800 served |
| POWERS, CITY OF surface water · local government · OR4100672 | 712 served |
| SHELLEY ROAD-CREST ACRES WD buys surface water · local government · OR4101401 | 430 served |
| RINK CREEK WATER DISTRICT buys surface water · local government · OR4101402 | 285 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 48 people were held in Coos County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 131 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 81.
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.
6 school districts have their office in Coos County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $48.8 million — $48.3 million to run schools, about $13,989 per student, plus $504,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.9 million local (mostly property tax), $38 million state, $4.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $6 million.
Spent $62.8 million — $51.2 million to run schools, about $16,626 per student, plus $7.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $17.5 million local (mostly property tax), $33.7 million state, $7.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $61.2 million.
Spent $19.7 million — $18.8 million to run schools, about $15,346 per student, plus $301,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.5 million local (mostly property tax), $14.8 million state, $2.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.7 million.
Spent $12.1 million — $11.6 million to run schools, about $17,249 per student, plus $462,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.8 million local (mostly property tax), $7.2 million state, $1.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $3.7 million.
Spent $10 million — $9.8 million to run schools, about $18,589 per student, plus $78,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.7 million local (mostly property tax), $5.7 million state, $1.6 million federal.
Spent $3.2 million — $2.8 million to run schools, about $22,402 per student, plus $328,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $479,000 local (mostly property tax), $2.5 million state, $385,000 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 Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Coos County about $89.6 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.
255 bridges in Coos County: 87 in good condition, 160 fair, and 8 poor (3.1%). “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 RD 7A over HAYNES SLOUGH · built 1971 | 1,733 vehicles a day |
| FILLMORE AVE over FERRY CREEK · built 1960 | 1,200 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD 10A over GRAYDON-ANDERSON/SLOUGH · built 2000 | 642 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD 118G over NOBLE CREEK · built 1970 | 91 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD 153G over SOUTH FORK COQUILLE R. · built 1979 | 84 vehicles a day |
| ELK CREEK ROAD over S FK COQUILLE RIVER · built 1950 | 50 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $45.1 million of work in Coos County in fiscal 2025, about $695 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 Coos 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 Coos County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Douglas County (48 mi) · Curry County (50 mi) · Josephine County (61 mi) · Lane County (79 mi) · Jackson County (89 mi) · Benton County (96 mi).