24,124 people (2024 Census estimate, +5.7% since 2020)
1,872 square miles of land · 13 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.
23 active community water systems list Klickitat County in the area they serve, reporting 16,706 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| GOLDENDALE CITY OF groundwater · local government · WA5328450 | 4,314 served |
| WHITE SALMON CITY OF surface water · local government · WA5396350 | 4,077 served |
| BINGEN WATER DEPT buys surface water · local government · WA5306900 | 1,758 served |
| GLACIER SPRINGS WATER ASSN groundwater · private · WA5327750 | 992 served |
| LYLE WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · WA5349000 | 938 served |
| GLENWOOD WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · WA5328220 | 629 served |
| WISHRAM WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · WA5397950 | 599 served |
| DALLESPORT WATER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · WA5317715 | 598 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 33 people were held in Klickitat County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 242 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 47.
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.
10 school districts have their office in Klickitat County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $42.5 million — $37.9 million to run schools, about $12,739 per student, plus $4.3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.8 million local (mostly property tax), $35.5 million state, $5.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $229,000.
Spent $22.6 million — $19.5 million to run schools, about $17,497 per student, plus $475,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.8 million local (mostly property tax), $14 million state, $2.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $6.3 million.
Spent $5.5 million — $4.7 million to run schools, about $22,024 per student, plus $493,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $870,000 local (mostly property tax), $3.7 million state, $893,000 federal.
Spent $4.2 million — $4.1 million to run schools, about $20,437 per student, plus $23,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $776,000 local (mostly property tax), $3.2 million state, $375,000 federal. Long-term debt: $126,000.
Spent $3 million — $2.9 million to run schools, about $27,558 per student, plus $154,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $451,000 local (mostly property tax), $2.6 million state, $16,000 federal.
Spent $2.9 million — $2.6 million to run schools, about $24,854 per student, plus $58,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $208,000 local (mostly property tax), $2.7 million state, $191,000 federal.
Spent $2.2 million — $1.7 million to run schools, about $17,567 per student, plus $416,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $379,000 local (mostly property tax), $1.8 million state, $182,000 federal.
Spent $3.1 million — $2.5 million to run schools, about $36,735 per student, plus $455,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $171,000 local (mostly property tax), $2.4 million state, $225,000 federal.
And 2 more.
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 Klickitat County about $26.1 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
91 bridges in Klickitat County: 25 in good condition, 60 fair, and 6 poor (6.6%). “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.
| US 97 over SWALE CREEK · built 1960 | 6,760 vehicles a day |
| US 97 over BICKLETON RD · built 1972 | 5,310 vehicles a day |
| US 97 over KUSSHI CR · built 1945 | 4,013 vehicles a day |
| SR 14 over ALDER CREEK · built 1965 | 936 vehicles a day |
| PROJECT AND PUBLIC over THE DALLES DAM · built 1956 | 100 vehicles a day |
| SEVENTH STREET over BURLINGTON NORTHERN RR · built 1994 | 99 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $8.1 million of work in Klickitat County in fiscal 2025, about $357 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 Klickitat 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 Klickitat County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Sherman County, OR (33 mi) · Yakima County (40 mi) · Gilliam County, OR (41 mi) · Hood River County, OR (49 mi) · Wasco County, OR (52 mi) · Skamania County (57 mi).