67,323 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.5% since 2020)
1,008 square miles of land · 67 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.
11 active community water systems list Chippewa County in the area they serve, reporting 31,355 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CHIPPEWA FALLS WATERWORKS groundwater · local government · WI6090456 | 13,375 served |
| LAKE HALLIE WATERWORKS VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · WI6090849 | 6,701 served |
| BLOOMER WATERWORKS groundwater · local government · WI6090448 | 3,680 served |
| STANLEY WATERWORKS groundwater · local government · WI6090462 | 3,500 served |
| CORNELL WATERWORKS groundwater · local government · WI6090458 | 1,390 served |
| CADOTT WATERWORKS groundwater · local government · WI6090450 | 1,352 served |
| NEW AUBURN WATERWORKS groundwater · local government · WI6090461 | 549 served |
| BOYD WATERWORKS groundwater · local government · WI6090449 | 540 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 95 people were held in Chippewa County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2025). In 2020 it was about 114.
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.
6 school districts have their office in Chippewa County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $78.8 million — $68.6 million to run schools, about $14,340 per student, plus $2.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $26.2 million local (mostly property tax), $44.7 million state, $11.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $56.3 million.
Spent $18.9 million — $16.5 million to run schools, about $13,029 per student, plus $508,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.3 million local (mostly property tax), $12.9 million state, $2.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $18.7 million.
Spent $17.5 million — $13.7 million to run schools, about $12,569 per student, plus $2.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.9 million local (mostly property tax), $11.6 million state, $2.9 million federal.
Spent $15.2 million — $13.2 million to run schools, about $16,337 per student, plus $421,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5 million local (mostly property tax), $9.9 million state, $1.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $8.5 million.
Spent $7.5 million — $6 million to run schools, about $14,748 per student, plus $449,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.1 million local (mostly property tax), $4.2 million state, $1.8 million federal.
Spent $6.8 million — $5.6 million to run schools, about $20,822 per student, plus $315,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.9 million local (mostly property tax), $1.8 million state, $1.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $50,000.
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 Chippewa County about $31.7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
359 bridges in Chippewa County: 119 in good condition, 200 fair, and 40 poor (11.1%). “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.
| STH 124-JEFFERSON over DUNCAN CREEK · built 1949 | 9,920 vehicles a day |
| CTH S over DUNCAN CREEK · built 1978 | 5,515 vehicles a day |
| CTH X 37TH AVE over STH 29 · built 1966 | 5,300 vehicles a day |
| LRD CENTRAL STREET over DUNCAN CREEK · built 1934 | 3,310 vehicles a day |
| LRD COLUMBIA STREE over DUNCAN CREEK · built 1976 | 3,085 vehicles a day |
| LRD BRIDGEWATER AV over DUNCAN CREEK · built 1934 | 2,855 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $28.5 million of work in Chippewa County in fiscal 2025, about $430 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 Wisconsin 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 Chippewa 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 Chippewa County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Eau Claire County (24 mi) · Rusk County (29 mi) · Dunn County (31 mi) · Barron County (38 mi) · Taylor County (39 mi) · Clark County (40 mi).