5,290 people (2024 Census estimate, +3.8% since 2020)
5,180 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.
12 active community water systems list Garfield County in the area they serve, reporting 5,478 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| PANGUITCH CITY WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · UTAH09007 | 1,800 served |
| ESCALANTE TOWN WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · UTAH09004 | 800 served |
| RUBYS INN groundwater · private · UTAH09012 | 700 served |
| TROPIC TOWN WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · UTAH09008 | 586 served |
| BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK groundwater · federal · UTAH09045 | 351 served |
| BOULDER FARMSTEAD WATER CO groundwater · private · UTAH09002 | 277 served |
| CANNONVILLE TOWN WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · UTAH09003 | 245 served |
| HATCH TOWN WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · UTAH09005 | 234 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 105 people were held in Garfield County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 3,514 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 104.
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 Garfield County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $26.4 million — $16.1 million to run schools, about $12,261 per student, plus $9.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7 million local (mostly property tax), $13.5 million state, $2 million 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 Garfield County about $10.4 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
93 bridges in Garfield County: 20 in good condition, 68 fair, and 5 poor (5.4%). “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.
| COUNTY ROAD over ESCALANTE RIVER · built 1991 | 284 vehicles a day |
| NFSR 30087 over KANAB CREEK · built 2005 | 50 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD over HENRIEVILLE CREEK · built 1974 | 32 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD FA 1862 over ALVEY WASH · built 1987 | 19 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD over MAMMOTH CREEK · built 1945 | 6 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $11.1 million of work in Garfield County in fiscal 2025, about $2,177 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 Utah 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 Garfield 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 Garfield County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Wayne County (39 mi) · Kane County (43 mi) · Piute County (51 mi) · Sevier County (66 mi) · Emery County (90 mi) · San Juan County (92 mi).