12,660 people (2024 Census estimate, +5.1% since 2020)
1,658 square miles of land · 8 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.
13 active community water systems list Skamania County in the area they serve, reporting 11,021 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| STEVENSON WATER DEPT surface water · local government · WA5384250 | 4,702 served |
| CARSON surface water · local government · WA5311340 | 3,015 served |
| NORTH BONNEVILLE CITY OF groundwater · local government · WA5360150 | 1,048 served |
| UNDERWOOD groundwater · local government · WA5390200 | 1,000 served |
| HOME VALLEY WATER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · WA5309188 | 500 served |
| MILL A WATER CO groundwater · private · WA5354680 | 278 served |
| SKAMANIA LANDING OWNERS ASSN groundwater · private · WA5309251 | 132 served |
| DUGGAN FALLS groundwater · private · WA5303754 | 100 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 17 people were held in Skamania County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 225 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 31.
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.
4 school districts have their office in Skamania County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $17 million — $15.7 million to run schools, about $18,577 per student, plus $1.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3 million local (mostly property tax), $11 million state, $2.9 million federal.
Spent $1.8 million — $1.6 million to run schools, about $21,986 per student, plus $64,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $389,000 local (mostly property tax), $1.1 million state, $396,000 federal.
Spent $1.1 million — $1.1 million to run schools, about $16,412 per student. Money in: $174,000 local (mostly property tax), $973,000 state, $153,000 federal.
Spent $2.4 million — $2.4 million to run schools, about $35,224 per student, plus $8,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $10,000 local (mostly property tax), $2.3 million state, $180,000 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 Skamania County about $19.4 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.
120 bridges in Skamania County: 55 in good condition, 54 fair, and 11 poor (9.2%). “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 14 over HALF BRIDGE · built 1930 | 4,879 vehicles a day |
| SR 14 over HAMILTON CREEK · built 1978 | 4,524 vehicles a day |
| NO DATA ENTERED over SWIFT CREEK · built 1957 | 650 vehicles a day |
| SKAMANIA LANDING R over BUTLER SLOUGH · built 1948 | 209 vehicles a day |
| NO DATA ENTERED over DRY CREEK · built 1962 | 118 vehicles a day |
| NO DATA ENTERED over LOST CREEK · built 1962 | 118 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $7.2 million of work in Skamania County in fiscal 2025, about $597 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 Skamania 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 Skamania County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Clark County (31 mi) · Cowlitz County (37 mi) · Hood River County, OR (38 mi) · Multnomah County, OR (40 mi) · Lewis County (43 mi) · Columbia County, OR (54 mi).