382,396 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.5% since 2020)
4,554 square miles of land · 84 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.
72 active community water systems list Lane County in the area they serve, reporting 301,008 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| EUGENE WATER & ELECTRIC BOARD surface water · local government · OR4100287 | 176,000 served |
| SPRINGFIELD UTILITY BOARD surface water · local government · OR4100837 | 62,100 served |
| COTTAGE GROVE, CITY OF surface water · local government · OR4100236 | 10,879 served |
| FLORENCE, CITY OF groundwater · local government · OR4100299 | 9,561 served |
| JUNCTION CITY WATER UTILITIES groundwater · local government · OR4100418 | 7,000 served |
| RAINBOW WATER DISTRICT groundwater (surface-influenced) · local government · OR4100839 | 6,300 served |
| CRESWELL, CITY OF surface water · local government · OR4100246 | 5,585 served |
| VENETA, CITY OF buys surface water · local government · OR4100920 | 5,200 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 324 people were held in Lane County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 132 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 436.
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.
16 school districts have their office in Lane County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $360.8 million — $282.2 million to run schools, about $17,019 per student, plus $60.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $173 million local (mostly property tax), $135.1 million state, $29.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $490.8 million.
Spent $168.5 million — $151.3 million to run schools, about $15,653 per student, plus $10.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $46.1 million local (mostly property tax), $103.1 million state, $25.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $125.2 million.
Spent $127 million — $83.6 million to run schools, about $16,390 per student, plus $38.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $31.5 million local (mostly property tax), $59.6 million state, $13.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $206.8 million.
Spent $49.3 million — $48 million to run schools, about $17,295 per student, plus $116,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $12.3 million local (mostly property tax), $32.6 million state, $6.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $96.1 million.
Spent $28.8 million — $26.4 million to run schools, about $15,685 per student, plus $1.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $9.9 million local (mostly property tax), $16.5 million state, $2.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $18.9 million.
Spent $23 million — $21.5 million to run schools, about $15,056 per student, plus $382,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $9.6 million local (mostly property tax), $13.7 million state, $2.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $30.9 million.
Spent $28.3 million — $25.4 million to run schools, about $20,378 per student, plus $2.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11.3 million local (mostly property tax), $8.3 million state, $5.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $5.7 million.
Spent $21.8 million — $19.4 million to run schools, about $17,085 per student, plus $2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.6 million local (mostly property tax), $14.2 million state, $1.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $9.7 million.
And 8 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 High compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Lane County about $221.3 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
1,011 bridges in Lane County: 346 in good condition, 649 fair, and 16 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.
| GOODPASTURE IS RD over HWY 132 · built 1965 | 17,868 vehicles a day |
| US101 (HWY 9) over Siuslaw River · built 1936 | 10,905 vehicles a day |
| HWY 222 over I-5 (HWY 001) · built 2007 | 7,873 vehicles a day |
| ROYAL AVE over AMAZON CANAL · built 1973 | 6,753 vehicles a day |
| OR 36 (HWY 229) over CREEK · built 1932 | 3,445 vehicles a day |
| OR 58 (HWY 018) over SALT CREEK · built 1965 | 2,706 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $221.6 million of work in Lane County in fiscal 2025, about $579 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 Lane 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 Lane County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Linn County (43 mi) · Douglas County (46 mi) · Benton County (47 mi) · Marion County (69 mi) · Lincoln County (70 mi) · Polk County (72 mi).