45,795 people (2024 Census estimate, +6.4% since 2020)
1,819 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.
18 active community water systems list Douglas County in the area they serve, reporting 36,708 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| EAST WENATCHEE WATER DISTRICT buys groundwater · local government · WA5321800 | 26,519 served |
| Rock Island Water Dept City of groundwater · local government · WA5373401 | 3,226 served |
| BRIDGEPORT CITY OF groundwater · local government · WA5308350 | 2,214 served |
| WATERVILLE TOWN OF groundwater · local government · WA5393600 | 1,140 served |
| SUN COVE PUBLIC WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · WA5385124 | 716 served |
| MANSFIELD WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · WA5350850 | 380 served |
| CORRAL SPRINGS WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · WA5351714 | 336 served |
| GREATER BAR WATER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · WA5319910 | 330 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 49 people were held in Douglas County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 178 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 105.
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.
7 school districts have their office in Douglas County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $106.5 million — $100.3 million to run schools, about $16,625 per student, plus $4.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $21.7 million local (mostly property tax), $72.1 million state, $16.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $29.1 million.
Spent $15.3 million — $13.6 million to run schools, about $17,545 per student, plus $1.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.1 million local (mostly property tax), $11.7 million state, $3 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.4 million.
Spent $14.9 million — $13.5 million to run schools, about $17,568 per student, plus $1.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.5 million local (mostly property tax), $10.9 million state, $2.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $257,000.
Spent $6.6 million — $5.6 million to run schools, about $23,931 per student, plus $554,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.5 million local (mostly property tax), $4.4 million state, $793,000 federal.
Spent $4.9 million — $3.8 million to run schools, about $27,065 per student, plus $637,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.4 million local (mostly property tax), $2.3 million state, $1.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.8 million.
Spent $3.3 million — $3 million to run schools, about $29,214 per student, plus $296,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $389,000 local (mostly property tax), $2.7 million state, $196,000 federal.
Spent $1 million — $887,000 to run schools, about $34,115 per student, plus $105,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $169,000 local (mostly property tax), $765,000 state, $311,000 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: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Douglas County about $26.9 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
40 bridges in Douglas County: 16 in good condition, 19 fair, and 5 poor (12.5%). “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.
| SR 28 over DOUGLAS CREEK · built 1957 | 9,626 vehicles a day |
| US 97 over COLUMBIA RIVER · built 1962 | 5,821 vehicles a day |
| US 2 over DOUGLAS CR · built 1974 | 773 vehicles a day |
| PEARL HILL RD over JORDAN CREEK · built 1953 | 72 vehicles a day |
| MANSFIELD NORTH RD over FOSTER CREEK DRAINAGE · built 1961 | 55 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $-3,546,486 of work in Douglas County in fiscal 2025, about $-83 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 Washington 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 Douglas 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 Douglas County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Grant County (38 mi) · Chelan County (44 mi) · Okanogan County (56 mi) · Lincoln County (60 mi) · Kittitas County (62 mi) · Ferry County (74 mi).