22,774 people (2024 Census estimate, −3.2% since 2020)
1,628 square miles of land · 14 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.
12 active community water systems list Curry County in the area they serve, reporting 16,688 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| BROOKINGS, CITY OF groundwater · local government · OR4100149 | 7,120 served |
| HARBOR WATER PUD groundwater · local government · OR4100150 | 3,150 served |
| GOLD BEACH, CITY OF groundwater (surface-influenced) · local government · OR4101059 | 3,000 served |
| NESIKA BEACH-OPHIR WD groundwater · local government · OR4100329 | 1,500 served |
| PORT ORFORD, CITY OF surface water · local government · OR4100670 | 1,200 served |
| LANGLOIS WATER DISTRICT surface water · local government · OR4100466 | 220 served |
| RAINBOW ROCK VILLAGE MHP groundwater (surface-influenced) · private · OR4101062 | 115 served |
| WHALESHEAD BEACH RESORT, LLC groundwater (surface-influenced) · private · OR4194489 | 108 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 31 people were held in Curry County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 261 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 33.
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.
3 school districts have their office in Curry County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $21.9 million — $20.6 million to run schools, about $14,771 per student, plus $883,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8.7 million local (mostly property tax), $11.6 million state, $3.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $6.3 million.
Spent $8.2 million — $7.7 million to run schools, about $17,725 per student, plus $499,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.5 million local (mostly property tax), $3.1 million state, $1.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $405,000.
Spent $6.1 million — $5.5 million to run schools, about $24,212 per student, plus $617,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.3 million local (mostly property tax), $2.4 million state, $1.7 million 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 Curry County about $44 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
101 bridges in Curry County: 29 in good condition, 66 fair, and 6 poor (5.9%). “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.
| JERRYS FLAT ROAD over INDIAN CREEK · built 1957 | 3,451 vehicles a day |
| HNTR CREEK LOOP RD over HUNTER CREEK · built 1928 | 739 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD 693 over PISTOL RIVER · built 1970 | 344 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD 690 over UPPER CROOK CREEK · built 1959 | 255 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD 510 over EUCHRE CREEK · built 1927 | 225 vehicles a day |
| SOURDOUGH ACCESS over FALL CREEK · built 1966 | 50 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $13.4 million of work in Curry County in fiscal 2025, about $571 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 Curry 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 Curry County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Josephine County (33 mi) · Coos County (50 mi) · Del Norte County, CA (51 mi) · Douglas County (78 mi) · Jackson County (78 mi) · Siskiyou County, CA (105 mi).