88,276 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.1% since 2020)
1,639 square miles of land · 54 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.
35 active community water systems list Josephine County in the area they serve, reporting 42,605 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| GRANTS PASS, CITY OF surface water · local government · OR4100342 | 37,138 served |
| CAVE JUNCTION, CITY OF surface water · local government · OR4100971 | 2,160 served |
| KERBY WATER DISTRICT buys surface water · private · OR4101521 | 400 served |
| ROGUE LEA ESTATES-NORTH/SOUTH groundwater · private · OR4101405 | 350 served |
| FAMILY REDWOOD PARK COOPERATIVE groundwater · private · OR4100348 | 250 served |
| WILLOW ESTATES MOBILE HOME PK groundwater · private · OR4101354 | 250 served |
| COUNTRY ESTATES MOBILE PARK groundwater · private · OR4100340 | 175 served |
| RIVIERA MOBILE PARK groundwater · private · OR4101104 | 150 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 155 people were held in Josephine County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 311 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 170.
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.
2 school districts have their office in Josephine County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $88.9 million — $87.3 million to run schools, about $15,243 per student, plus $1.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $21.2 million local (mostly property tax), $59.8 million state, $19.1 million federal.
Spent $86.7 million — $76.5 million to run schools, about $16,880 per student, plus $9.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $24.1 million local (mostly property tax), $44.7 million state, $15.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $15.2 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 Josephine County about $70 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
224 bridges in Josephine County: 81 in good condition, 137 fair, and 6 poor (2.7%). “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.
| WIMER ROAD over WHISKEY CREEK · built 1954 | 80 vehicles a day |
| CARRIE ST over GRAVE CREEK · built 1948 | 75 vehicles a day |
| TAYLOR MINNOW RD over TAYLOR CREEK · built 1959 | 50 vehicles a day |
| SLATE CREEK ROAD over BEAR CREEK · built 1975 | 31 vehicles a day |
| Three Mill Road over McMullin Creek · built 2002 | 30 vehicles a day |
| LOWER WHEELER RD over WHEELER CREEK · built 1958 | 21 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $34.4 million of work in Josephine County in fiscal 2025, about $390 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 Josephine 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 Josephine County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Curry County (33 mi) · Jackson County (46 mi) · Del Norte County, CA (49 mi) · Coos County (61 mi) · Douglas County (66 mi) · Siskiyou County, CA (76 mi).