8,194 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.2% since 2020)
8,139 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.
3 active community water systems list Lake County in the area they serve, reporting 3,671 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| LAKEVIEW, TOWN OF groundwater · local government · OR4100464 | 2,476 served |
| CHRISTMAS VALLEY DOMESTIC WS groundwater · local government · OR4100186 | 950 served |
| PAISLEY, CITY OF groundwater · local government · OR4100611 | 245 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 16 people were held in Lake County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 333 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 12.
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.
5 school districts have their office in Lake County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $15.4 million — $14.3 million to run schools, about $19,076 per student, plus $849,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4 million local (mostly property tax), $8.9 million state, $1.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $10.5 million.
Spent $6 million — $5.5 million to run schools, about $23,904 per student, plus $376,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.6 million local (mostly property tax), $4 million state, $579,000 federal. Long-term debt: $3.8 million.
Spent $3.7 million — $3.5 million to run schools, about $17,063 per student, plus $151,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $604,000 local (mostly property tax), $3.1 million state, $152,000 federal.
Spent $536,000 — $459,000 to run schools, about $38,250 per student, plus $20,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $147,000 local (mostly property tax), $372,000 state, $57,000 federal.
Spent $458,000 — $398,000 to run schools, about $49,750 per student, plus $17,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $105,000 local (mostly property tax), $399,000 state, $37,000 federal.
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 Lake County about $6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
95 bridges in Lake County: 39 in good condition, 49 fair, and 7 poor (7.4%). “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.
| OR 140 (HWY 431) over DEEP CREEK · built 1966 | 308 vehicles a day |
| ROAD over SYCAN SPRING · built 1961 | 85 vehicles a day |
| RIVER ROAD over ELDER CREEK · built 1957 | 79 vehicles a day |
| ROAD over DAIRY CREEK · built 1949 | 50 vehicles a day |
| ROAD over NORTH FORK SPRAGUE RIVER · built 1957 | 50 vehicles a day |
| ROAD over SYCAN RIVER · built 1960 | 50 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $8.6 million of work in Lake County in fiscal 2025, about $1,054 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 Lake 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 Lake County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Klamath County (64 mi) · Harney County (74 mi) · Modoc County, CA (84 mi) · Deschutes County (89 mi) · Crook County (95 mi) · Jackson County (119 mi).