211,535 people (2024 Census estimate, +6.0% since 2020)
3,018 square miles of land · 70 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.
68 active community water systems list Deschutes County in the area they serve, reporting 190,080 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| BEND, CITY OF surface water · local government · OR4100100 | 77,704 served |
| REDMOND WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · OR4100693 | 38,208 served |
| AVION WC - GREATER AVION groundwater · private · OR4100091 | 35,332 served |
| ROATS WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · OR4100113 | 6,469 served |
| SUNRIVER WATER LLC/SUNRIVER UTILITIES groundwater · private · OR4100846 | 4,300 served |
| SISTERS, CITY OF groundwater · local government · OR4100826 | 3,778 served |
| AGATE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · OR4101439 | 3,153 served |
| LA PINE, CITY OF groundwater · local government · OR4101496 | 2,807 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 200 people were held in Deschutes County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 152 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 259.
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 Deschutes County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $285.8 million — $247.9 million to run schools, about $14,277 per student, plus $20.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $159.2 million local (mostly property tax), $133 million state, $19.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $391.2 million.
Spent $135.3 million — $100.8 million to run schools, about $14,233 per student, plus $22.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $52.4 million local (mostly property tax), $68.2 million state, $10.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $202.3 million.
Spent $31.6 million — $18.6 million to run schools, about $16,286 per student, plus $11.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $17.8 million local (mostly property tax), $5.2 million state, $841,000 federal. Long-term debt: $44.6 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 Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Deschutes County about $66.1 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
156 bridges in Deschutes County: 78 in good condition, 76 fair, and 2 poor (1.3%). “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.
| WOOD DUCK COURT over OREGON WATER WONDERLAND · built 1984 | 279 vehicles a day |
| COYOTE RD NG/BBRG1 over NORTH UNIT CANAL · built 1960 | 13 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $32.1 million of work in Deschutes County in fiscal 2025, about $162 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 Deschutes 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 Deschutes County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Crook County (46 mi) · Jefferson County (50 mi) · Linn County (76 mi) · Wheeler County (82 mi) · Lane County (83 mi) · Wasco County (86 mi).