221,331 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.1% since 2020)
2,783 square miles of land · 80 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.
69 active community water systems list Jackson County in the area they serve, reporting 181,771 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| MEDFORD WATER COMMISSION surface water · local government · OR4100513 | 106,068 served |
| ASHLAND WATER DEPARTMENT surface water · local government · OR4100047 | 20,946 served |
| CENTRAL POINT, CITY OF buys surface water · local government · OR4100178 | 19,785 served |
| EAGLE POINT, CITY OF buys surface water · local government · OR4100267 | 9,554 served |
| TALENT, CITY OF buys surface water · local government · OR4100857 | 6,293 served |
| PHOENIX, CITY OF buys surface water · local government · OR4100625 | 5,900 served |
| JACKSONVILLE, CITY OF buys surface water · local government · OR4100405 | 3,012 served |
| ROGUE RIVER, CITY OF surface water · local government · OR4100712 | 2,345 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 334 people were held in Jackson County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 253 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 340.
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 Jackson County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $246.1 million — $200.4 million to run schools, about $14,455 per student, plus $38.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $66.9 million local (mostly property tax), $140 million state, $28.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $149.1 million.
Spent $115.4 million — $65.4 million to run schools, about $13,463 per student, plus $47.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $21.9 million local (mostly property tax), $59.4 million state, $10.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $80.1 million.
Spent $69.3 million — $64.7 million to run schools, about $15,260 per student, plus $4.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $16.1 million local (mostly property tax), $45 million state, $9 million federal.
Spent $86.9 million — $48.1 million to run schools, about $18,714 per student, plus $33.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $32.4 million local (mostly property tax), $18.4 million state, $0 federal. Long-term debt: $101.6 million.
Spent $45.1 million — $42.1 million to run schools, about $18,560 per student, plus $993,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $16.2 million local (mostly property tax), $24.9 million state, $6.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $70.6 million.
Spent $36.2 million — $29.1 million to run schools, about $16,196 per student, plus $2.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $16.3 million local (mostly property tax), $15.1 million state, $2.8 million federal. Long-term debt: $77.3 million.
Spent $17.8 million — $17.5 million to run schools, about $16,253 per student, plus $169,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5 million local (mostly property tax), $10.8 million state, $2.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $627,000.
Spent $4.6 million — $4.3 million to run schools, about $19,243 per student, plus $202,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $852,000 local (mostly property tax), $3.5 million state, $424,000 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: Relatively Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Jackson County about $122 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
401 bridges in Jackson County: 153 in good condition, 243 fair, and 5 poor (1.2%). “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.
| EAGLE PT - MAIN ST over LITTLE BUTTE CREEK · built 1947 | 5,681 vehicles a day |
| VALLEY VIEW RD C#2 over I-5 (HWY 001) · built 1962 | 4,170 vehicles a day |
| FREDENBURG RD. over N FK BIG BUTTE CR. · built 1975 | 218 vehicles a day |
| SWINGLE ROAD over TRAIL CREEK · built 1967 | 33 vehicles a day |
| NO DATA ENTERED over COW CREEK · built 1972 | 10 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $77.3 million of work in Jackson County in fiscal 2025, about $346 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 Jackson 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 Jackson County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Josephine County (46 mi) · Klamath County (56 mi) · Siskiyou County, CA (57 mi) · Douglas County (65 mi) · Curry County (78 mi) · Del Norte County, CA (81 mi).