14,332 people (2024 Census estimate, +6.1% since 2020)
1,400 square miles of land · 10 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.
15 active community water systems list Pend Oreille County in the area they serve, reporting 9,267 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| NEWPORT CITY OF groundwater · local government · WA5359350 | 3,331 served |
| IONE WATER DEPT groundwater · local government · WA5335900 | 2,395 served |
| DIAMOND LAKE WATER & SEWER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · WA5319207 | 1,299 served |
| CUSICK TOWN OF surface water · local government · WA5317000 | 672 served |
| METALINE FALLS TOWN OF surface water · local government · WA5354250 | 593 served |
| METALINE WATER DEPT surface water · local government · WA5354350 | 193 served |
| CHIPPEWA WATER DISTRICT buys groundwater · local government · WA5320501 | 185 served |
| RIVER BEND WATER SYSTEM surface water · local government · WA5372752 | 140 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 20 people were held in Pend Oreille County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 262 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.
3 school districts have their office in Pend Oreille County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $18.8 million — $18.7 million to run schools, about $17,138 per student, plus $34,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.6 million local (mostly property tax), $13.8 million state, $3.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.5 million.
Spent $6.7 million — $6.4 million to run schools, about $17,989 per student, plus $237,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.2 million local (mostly property tax), $5.1 million state, $1.3 million federal.
Spent $5.7 million — $5.6 million to run schools, about $21,388 per student, plus $6,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.6 million local (mostly property tax), $4.4 million state, $995,000 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Pend Oreille County about $9.1 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
71 bridges in Pend Oreille County: 38 in good condition, 22 fair, and 11 poor (15.5%). “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.
| Fifth Ave (Usk) over Pend Oreille River · built 1964 | 1,900 vehicles a day |
| SR 20 over TACOMA CR · built 1946 | 1,202 vehicles a day |
| SR 31 over SULLIVAN CREEK · built 1927 | 949 vehicles a day |
| Tacoma Creek Rd over Tacoma Creek · built 1960 | 290 vehicles a day |
| Cedar Creek Rd over Cedar Creek · built 1985 | 119 vehicles a day |
| FS ROUTE NO. 659 over UPPER W. BRANCH · built 1954 | 50 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $13.2 million of work in Pend Oreille County in fiscal 2025, about $985 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 Pend Oreille 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 Pend Oreille County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Stevens County (30 mi) · Bonner County, ID (31 mi) · Boundary County, ID (36 mi) · Ferry County (60 mi) · Spokane County (64 mi) · Kootenai County, ID (65 mi).