7,543 people (2024 Census estimate, +4.8% since 2020)
2,203 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.
11 active community water systems list Ferry County in the area they serve, reporting 3,627 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| REPUBLIC CITY OF groundwater · local government · WA5371900 | 1,673 served |
| INCHELIUM WATER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · WA5335550 | 540 served |
| CURLEW CONSERVATION CENTER groundwater · federal · WA53FS165 | 349 served |
| CURLEW WATER & SEWER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · WA5316900 | 316 served |
| LAKESIDE PARK groundwater · private · WA5333489 | 180 served |
| ORIENT WATER COMPANY surface water · private · WA5364300 | 167 served |
| CURLEW KAI HOMEOWNER WATER SYSTEM groundwater · private · WA5310581 | 133 served |
| MARTIN CREEK COMMUNITY ASSN groundwater · private · WA5351877 | 109 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 26 people were held in Ferry County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 632 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 22.
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.
5 school districts have their office in Ferry County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $8.1 million — $7 million to run schools, about $18,505 per student, plus $1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $634,000 local (mostly property tax), $6.3 million state, $1.2 million federal.
Spent $6.8 million — $5 million to run schools, about $20,177 per student, plus $1.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $408,000 local (mostly property tax), $4.7 million state, $958,000 federal.
Spent $6.1 million — $6 million to run schools, about $29,980 per student, plus $45,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $319,000 local (mostly property tax), $3.6 million state, $2.4 million federal.
Spent $1.8 million — $1.6 million to run schools, about $39,049 per student, plus $184,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $102,000 local (mostly property tax), $1.2 million state, $354,000 federal.
Spent $1.9 million — $1.5 million to run schools, about $51,600 per student, plus $184,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $74,000 local (mostly property tax), $868,000 state, $796,000 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 Ferry County about $10.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
55 bridges in Ferry County: 23 in good condition, 26 fair, and 6 poor (10.9%). “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.
| SR 20 over ABANDONED RAILROAD · built 1960 | 2,660 vehicles a day |
| SR 21 over SAN POIL R · built 1931 | 705 vehicles a day |
| SR 21 over SAN POIL RIVER · built 1931 | 193 vehicles a day |
| IRR BIA RTE 1123 over SITDOWN CREEK · built 1993 | 50 vehicles a day |
| SILVER CK RD 00670 over NINE MILE CREEK · built 1958 | 47 vehicles a day |
| McMANN CREEK ROAD over SAN POIL RIVER · built 1953 | 9 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $7.3 million of work in Ferry County in fiscal 2025, about $1,020 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 Ferry 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 Ferry County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Stevens County (32 mi) · Okanogan County (56 mi) · Pend Oreille County (60 mi) · Lincoln County (62 mi) · Douglas County (73 mi) · Spokane County (78 mi).