7,555 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.9% since 2020)
232 square miles of land · 33 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.
3 active community water systems list Pepin County in the area they serve, reporting 2,744 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| DURAND WATERWORKS groundwater · local government · WI6470107 | 1,868 served |
| PEPIN WATERWORKS groundwater · local government · WI6470141 | 816 served |
| WHISPERING PINES MHP groundwater · private · WI6470140 | 60 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 8 people were held in Pepin County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2025). In 2020 it was about 5.
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.
2 school districts have their office in Pepin County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $15.4 million — $13.8 million to run schools, about $13,801 per student, plus $182,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.5 million local (mostly property tax), $10.4 million state, $1.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $10.5 million.
Spent $5 million — $4.5 million to run schools, about $19,209 per student, plus $39,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.2 million local (mostly property tax), $1.9 million state, $328,000 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 Pepin County about $4 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
57 bridges in Pepin County: 38 in good condition, 15 fair, and 4 poor (7.0%). “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.
| CTH Z over ARKANSAW CREEK · built 1930 | 193 vehicles a day |
| CTH W over HARVEY CREEK · built 1977 | 112 vehicles a day |
| LRD DORWINS MILL over BEAR CREEK · built 1973 | 110 vehicles a day |
| CTH D over EAU GALLE RIVER · built 1971 | 83 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $5.1 million of work in Pepin County in fiscal 2025, about $697 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 Pepin 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 Pepin County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Buffalo County (17 mi) · Dunn County (22 mi) · Eau Claire County (28 mi) · Pierce County (30 mi) · Wabasha County, MN (30 mi) · Trempealeau County (32 mi).