2,136 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.5% since 2020)
982 square miles of land · 2 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.
7 active community water systems list Faulk County in the area they serve, reporting 21,955 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| WEB WATER DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION surface water · private · SD4601089 | 20,750 served |
| FAULKTON buys surface water · local government · SD4600125 | 693 served |
| BRENTWOOD COLONY groundwater · private · SD4602066 | 137 served |
| BLUMENGARD COLONY groundwater · private · SD4602057 | 133 served |
| EVERGREEN COLONY groundwater · private · SD4602050 | 121 served |
| CRESBARD buys surface water · local government · SD4600099 | 96 served |
| SENECA buys surface water · local government · SD4600292 | 25 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 4 people were held in Faulk County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 365 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 1.
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.
1 school district has its office in Faulk County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $5.9 million — $4.8 million to run schools, about $12,427 per student, plus $786,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.9 million local (mostly property tax), $1.3 million state, $658,000 federal. Long-term debt: $9.2 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Faulk County about $2.7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
46 bridges in Faulk County: 8 in good condition, 27 fair, and 11 poor (23.9%). “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.
| US212 over SOUTH FORK SNAKE CK · built 1939 | 688 vehicles a day |
| 372ND AVENUE over DOVE CREEK · built 1980 | 205 vehicles a day |
| 361ST AVENUE over N FORK OF SNAKE CREEK · built 1979 | 136 vehicles a day |
| 343RD AVENUE over S FORK SNAKE CREEK · built 1930 | 60 vehicles a day |
| 169TH STREET over BRYANT CREEK · built 1934 | 55 vehicles a day |
| 10TH AVENUE over S FORK SNAKE CREEK · built 1932 | 50 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $10.2 million of work in Faulk County in fiscal 2025, about $4,802 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 South Dakota 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 Faulk 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 Faulk County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Edmunds County (24 mi) · Hand County (37 mi) · Potter County (39 mi) · Hyde County (40 mi) · Spink County (41 mi) · Walworth County (49 mi).