49,015 people (2024 Census estimate, +5.2% since 2020)
2,477 square miles of land · 20 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.
33 active community water systems list Stevens County in the area they serve, reporting 28,799 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| STEVENS CO PUD - SUNCREST groundwater · local government · WA5385202 | 7,484 served |
| COLVILLE WATER DEPARTMENT groundwater · local government · WA5314200 | 4,945 served |
| STEVENS CO PUD - DEER LAKE groundwater · local government · WA5393380 | 2,884 served |
| KETTLE FALLS WATER DEPT groundwater · local government · WA5338400 | 2,698 served |
| CHEWELAH WATER DEPT SOUTH groundwater · local government · WA5312750 | 2,615 served |
| STEVENS CO PUD - LOON LAKE groundwater · local government · WA5348250 | 2,487 served |
| STEVENS CO PUD - WAITTS LAKE groundwater · local government · WA5391130 | 1,216 served |
| STEVENS CO PUD - CLAYTON groundwater · local government · WA5313450 | 725 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 50 people were held in Stevens County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 184 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 41.
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.
12 school districts have their office in Stevens County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $27.2 million — $26.7 million to run schools, about $15,840 per student, plus $467,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.6 million local (mostly property tax), $22.8 million state, $6.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $715,000.
Spent $18.7 million — $16 million to run schools, about $14,188 per student, plus $1.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.9 million local (mostly property tax), $14.5 million state, $1.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $376,000.
Spent $16.3 million — $14.5 million to run schools, about $13,417 per student, plus $899,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.8 million local (mostly property tax), $14.8 million state, $949,000 federal. Long-term debt: $1.2 million.
Spent $18.2 million — $13.7 million to run schools, about $17,379 per student, plus $4.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.8 million local (mostly property tax), $13.3 million state, $2.7 million federal.
Spent $8.9 million — $7.9 million to run schools, about $14,949 per student, plus $791,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $517,000 local (mostly property tax), $7 million state, $1.7 million federal.
Spent $13 million — $13 million to run schools, about $33,296 per student. Money in: $624,000 local (mostly property tax), $6.9 million state, $5.3 million federal.
Spent $5.5 million — $5.2 million to run schools, about $18,495 per student, plus $229,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $639,000 local (mostly property tax), $4.5 million state, $691,000 federal. Long-term debt: $178,000.
Spent $4 million — $3.3 million to run schools, about $15,131 per student, plus $563,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $600,000 local (mostly property tax), $2.5 million state, $443,000 federal. Long-term debt: $196,000.
And 4 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 Stevens County about $18.3 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.
75 bridges in Stevens County: 30 in good condition, 36 fair, and 9 poor (12.0%). “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.
| Orin - Rice Road over COLVILLE RIVER · built 1959 | 1,028 vehicles a day |
| SR 25 over COLUMBIA RIVER · built 1948 | 904 vehicles a day |
| DOUGLAS FALLS ROAD over MILL CREEK · built 1960 | 420 vehicles a day |
| PEND OREILLE LK RD over LITTLE PEND OREILLE RIVE · built 1957 | 363 vehicles a day |
| MAIN STREET over CHEWELAH CREEK · built 1935 | 300 vehicles a day |
| SECOND AVE over CHEWELAH CREEK · built 1935 | 100 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $23.7 million of work in Stevens County in fiscal 2025, about $510 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 Stevens 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 Stevens County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Pend Oreille County (30 mi) · Ferry County (32 mi) · Bonner County, ID (56 mi) · Spokane County (57 mi) · Lincoln County (61 mi) · Boundary County, ID (66 mi).