27,264 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.7% since 2020)
1,103 square miles of land · 25 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 Tillamook County in the area they serve, reporting 28,254 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| TILLAMOOK WATER DEPT, CITY OF surface water · local government · OR4100893 | 5,265 served |
| MANZANITA, CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · OR4100505 | 3,200 served |
| FAIRVIEW WATER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · OR4100887 | 1,930 served |
| NETARTS WATER DISTRICT surface water · local government · OR4100556 | 1,800 served |
| NESKOWIN REG WATER DIST surface water · local government · OR4100970 | 1,735 served |
| NEHALEM, CITY OF surface water · local government · OR4100554 | 1,700 served |
| ROCKAWAY BEACH, CITY OF surface water · local government · OR4100708 | 1,533 served |
| BAY CITY WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · OR4100079 | 1,400 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 36 people were held in Tillamook County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 231 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 72.
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.
3 school districts have their office in Tillamook County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $38.6 million — $33.6 million to run schools, about $16,063 per student, plus $2.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $16.2 million local (mostly property tax), $20.4 million state, $4.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $26.9 million.
Spent $18.6 million — $17.6 million to run schools, about $23,663 per student, plus $938,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $14 million local (mostly property tax), $5.2 million state, $899,000 federal. Long-term debt: $4.3 million.
Spent $20.5 million — $10.9 million to run schools, about $21,283 per student, plus $7.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $10.3 million local (mostly property tax), $2.7 million state, $1.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $31.9 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 Tillamook County about $39.3 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.
228 bridges in Tillamook County: 68 in good condition, 145 fair, and 15 poor (6.6%). “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.
| US101 (HWY 9) over Kilchis R. & Possetti Rd · built 1952 | 13,357 vehicles a day |
| Hwy 131 over Trask River · built 1948 | 5,192 vehicles a day |
| OR 6 (Hwy 37) over Wilson River · built 1939 | 5,092 vehicles a day |
| Hwy 131 over Tillamook River · built 1962 | 4,701 vehicles a day |
| OR 22 (Hwy 32) over Louie Creek · built 1962 | 1,724 vehicles a day |
| HWY 130 over Panther Creek · built 1957 | 717 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $21.3 million of work in Tillamook County in fiscal 2025, about $778 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 Tillamook 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 Tillamook County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Yamhill County (26 mi) · Washington County (33 mi) · Clatsop County (39 mi) · Polk County (42 mi) · Columbia County (47 mi) · Lincoln County (57 mi).