4,110 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.8% since 2020)
1,015 square miles of land · 4 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.
5 active community water systems list Gregory County in the area they serve, reporting 7,020 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| TRIPP COUNTY WATER USER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · SD4600520 | 4,860 served |
| GREGORY groundwater · local government · SD4600145 | 1,221 served |
| BURKE buys groundwater · local government · SD4600079 | 575 served |
| BONESTEEL buys groundwater · local government · SD4600045 | 275 served |
| DALLAS buys groundwater · local government · SD4600102 | 89 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 1 people were held in Gregory County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (1983), or 30 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 1978 it was about 3.
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 Gregory County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $8.7 million — $5.6 million to run schools, about $13,026 per student, plus $3.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3 million local (mostly property tax), $2 million state, $1.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $877,000.
Spent $4.1 million — $3.8 million to run schools, about $15,962 per student, plus $220,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.3 million local (mostly property tax), $1.3 million state, $595,000 federal. Long-term debt: $3 million.
Spent $1.9 million — $1.4 million to run schools, about $17,420 per student, plus $66,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $977,000 local (mostly property tax), $219,000 state, $691,000 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 Gregory County about $7.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
51 bridges in Gregory County: 15 in good condition, 31 fair, and 5 poor (9.8%). “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.
| 354 AVENUE over PONCA CK · built 1952 | 189 vehicles a day |
| STATE PARK RD over SOUTH SCALP CK · built 1963 | 50 vehicles a day |
| 352 AVENUE over WILLOW CK · built 1956 | 36 vehicles a day |
| 366 AVENUE over NORTH SCALP CK · built 2015 | 36 vehicles a day |
| 297 STREET over CK · built 1920 | 10 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $4.2 million of work in Gregory County in fiscal 2025, about $1,042 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 Gregory 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 Gregory County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Boyd County, NE (29 mi) · Charles Mix County (31 mi) · Keya Paha County, NE (33 mi) · Tripp County (36 mi) · Brule County (39 mi) · Douglas County (45 mi).