2,752 people (2024 Census estimate, +9.9% since 2020)
1,029 square miles of land · 3 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.
9 active community water systems list Rich County in the area they serve, reporting 2,146 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| GARDEN CITY groundwater (surface-influenced) · local government · UTAH17002 | 658 served |
| RANDOLPH TOWN WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · UTAH17005 | 470 served |
| LAKETOWN groundwater · local government · UTAH17003 | 380 served |
| BRIDGERLAND WATER CO groundwater · private · UTAH17001 | 240 served |
| WOODRUFF TOWN WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · UTAH17008 | 200 served |
| MOUNTAIN MEADOW IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT groundwater · local government · UTAH17022 | 80 served |
| SWAN CREEK VILLAGE WATER COMPANY LLC groundwater · private · UTAH17027 | 61 served |
| DESERET LAND AND LIVESTOCK groundwater · private · UTAH17016 | 29 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 3 people were held in Rich County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 194 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 2.
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 Rich County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $12.3 million — $10.8 million to run schools, about $21,021 per student, plus $956,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.9 million local (mostly property tax), $4.2 million state, $661,000 federal. Long-term debt: $8.8 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 Rich County about $1.6 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
20 bridges in Rich County: 3 in good condition, 13 fair, and 4 poor (20.0%). “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 BEAR RIVER · built 1947 | 63 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD over SALERATUS CREEK · built 1935 | 51 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD over WOODRUFF-RANDOLPH CANAL · built 1952 | 26 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY ROAD over WOODRUFF-RANDOLPH CANAL · built 1981 | 26 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $904,810 of work in Rich County in fiscal 2025, about $360 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 Rich 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 Rich County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Cache County (27 mi) · Morgan County (41 mi) · Weber County (41 mi) · Uinta County, WY (42 mi) · Bear Lake County, ID (46 mi) · Franklin County, ID (48 mi).