555,947 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.7% since 2020)
1,764 square miles of land · 315 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.
87 active community water systems list Spokane County in the area they serve, reporting 609,121 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| SPOKANE CITY OF groundwater · local government · WA5383100 | 346,138 served |
| WHITWORTH WATER DISTRICT 2 groundwater · local government · WA5396601 | 26,883 served |
| VERA WATER & POWER groundwater · local government · WA5391450 | 24,692 served |
| CONSOLIDATED IRRIG DIST 19 SYSTEM 2 groundwater · local government · WA5310221 | 21,220 served |
| SPO CO WATER DIST 3 SYS 1 groundwater · local government · WA5393351 | 19,035 served |
| MODERN ELECTRIC WATER CO groundwater · private · WA5355600 | 18,487 served |
| EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY groundwater · state · WA5321900 | 17,108 served |
| CHENEY CITY OF groundwater · local government · WA5312400 | 16,954 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 859 people were held in Spokane County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 241 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 940.
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.
14 school districts have their office in Spokane County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $730.6 million — $526.4 million to run schools, about $18,334 per student, plus $160.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $144.7 million local (mostly property tax), $385.9 million state, $92.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $546.2 million.
Spent $251.4 million — $231.8 million to run schools, about $15,783 per student, plus $2.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $54.7 million local (mostly property tax), $177.4 million state, $16.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $224.7 million.
Spent $173.1 million — $156.9 million to run schools, about $15,204 per student, plus $5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $37.3 million local (mostly property tax), $126.5 million state, $9 million federal. Long-term debt: $170.2 million.
Spent $88.2 million — $80.9 million to run schools, about $14,596 per student, plus $1.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $21.8 million local (mostly property tax), $66.2 million state, $9.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $92.2 million.
Spent $73.1 million — $64.5 million to run schools, about $17,564 per student, plus $6.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $16.5 million local (mostly property tax), $45.6 million state, $8.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $2.7 million.
Spent $65.4 million — $53.4 million to run schools, about $15,335 per student, plus $10.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $14 million local (mostly property tax), $42.6 million state, $7.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $5.1 million.
Spent $39.6 million — $37.2 million to run schools, about $13,402 per student, plus $908,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7 million local (mostly property tax), $34.4 million state, $3.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $11.3 million.
Spent $31.3 million — $29.9 million to run schools, about $15,739 per student, plus $747,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.1 million local (mostly property tax), $23.2 million state, $5 million federal. Long-term debt: $9.5 million.
And 6 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 Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Spokane County about $98.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
309 bridges in Spokane County: 156 in good condition, 132 fair, and 21 poor (6.8%). “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.
| SULLIVAN RD over SR 290 (TRENT AVE) · built 1960 | 21,500 vehicles a day |
| THOR ST over I-90 · built 1957 | 19,798 vehicles a day |
| GREENE STREET over SPOKANE RIVER LOCAL RDS · built 1955 | 17,869 vehicles a day |
| SUNSET BOULEVARD over LATAH CREEK · built 1913 | 14,995 vehicles a day |
| I-90 over MEDICAL LAKE RD · built 1966 | 11,409 vehicles a day |
| SPRAGUE AVENUE over SPRAGUE WAY SB · built 1954 | 8,658 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $516.3 million of work in Spokane County in fiscal 2025, about $957 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 Spokane 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 Spokane County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Kootenai County, ID (33 mi) · Benewah County, ID (45 mi) · Lincoln County (47 mi) · Whitman County (50 mi) · Stevens County (57 mi) · Bonner County, ID (61 mi).