7,402 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.4% since 2020)
10,134 square miles of land · 1 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.
4 active community water systems list Harney County in the area they serve, reporting 4,555 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| BURNS WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · OR4100153 | 2,730 served |
| HINES WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · OR4100382 | 1,645 served |
| GH2O INC groundwater · private · OR4105730 | 120 served |
| HIGHLAND RANCH ESTATES buys groundwater · private · OR4101194 | 60 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 8 people were held in Harney County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 190 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 15.
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.
10 school districts have their office in Harney County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $18.3 million — $17.7 million to run schools, about $18,074 per student, plus $610,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.3 million local (mostly property tax), $11.6 million state, $235,000 federal.
Spent $4.6 million — $3.6 million to run schools, about $3,921 per student, plus $1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $755,000 local (mostly property tax), $11.2 million state, $1.2 million federal.
Spent $14.4 million — $13 million to run schools, about $17,491 per student, plus $591,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.7 million local (mostly property tax), $8.9 million state, $1.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $6.7 million.
Spent $402,000 — $358,000 to run schools, about $32,545 per student, plus $44,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $65,000 local (mostly property tax), $336,000 state, $77,000 federal.
Spent $709,000 — $506,000 to run schools, about $50,600 per student, plus $203,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $77,000 local (mostly property tax), $412,000 state, $174,000 federal.
Spent $557,000 — $422,000 to run schools, about $52,750 per student, plus $135,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $73,000 local (mostly property tax), $434,000 state, $4,000 federal.
Spent $436,000 — $426,000 to run schools, about $71,000 per student, plus $10,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $86,000 local (mostly property tax), $376,000 state, $113,000 federal.
Spent $241,000 — $223,000 to run schools, about $74,333 per student, plus $18,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $30,000 local (mostly property tax), $266,000 state, $24,000 federal.
And 2 more.
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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Harney County about $6.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
128 bridges in Harney County: 65 in good condition, 61 fair, and 2 poor (1.6%). “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.
| SOUTH HARNEY ROAD over SILVER CREEK · built 1975 | 137 vehicles a day |
| 8244: STEENS MOUNT over KUENY CREEK · built 1973 | 50 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $13.2 million of work in Harney County in fiscal 2025, about $1,767 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 Harney 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 Harney County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Malheur County (70 mi) · Lake County (73 mi) · Grant County (99 mi) · Crook County (103 mi) · Canyon County, ID (121 mi) · Humboldt County, NV (122 mi).