23,764 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.6% since 2020)
522 square miles of land · 46 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.
6 active community water systems list Hood River County in the area they serve, reporting 22,903 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| HOOD RIVER, CITY OF groundwater · local government · OR4100385 | 8,577 served |
| ICE FOUNTAIN WATER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · OR4100387 | 6,000 served |
| CRYSTAL SPRINGS WATER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · OR4100386 | 5,973 served |
| CASCADE LOCKS, CITY OF groundwater · local government · OR4100172 | 1,398 served |
| PARKDALE WATER COMPANY INC groundwater · private · OR4100612 | 867 served |
| ALDRIDGE DITCH CO WS buys groundwater · private · OR4101013 | 88 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 64 people were held in Hood River County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 425 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 67.
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.
1 school district has its office in Hood River County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $81 million — $74.2 million to run schools, about $19,370 per student, plus $4.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $29 million local (mostly property tax), $42 million state, $8.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $70.8 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Hood River County about $14.9 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.
82 bridges in Hood River County: 31 in good condition, 49 fair, and 2 poor (2.4%). “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.
| Toll Bridge over COLUMBIA RIVER · built 1924 | 14,227 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD 209 over NEAL CREEK · built 1975 | 838 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $12.9 million of work in Hood River County in fiscal 2025, about $540 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 Hood River 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 Hood River County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Wasco County (34 mi) · Clackamas County (36 mi) · Multnomah County (37 mi) · Skamania County, WA (38 mi) · Clark County, WA (44 mi) · Sherman County (48 mi).