12,635 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.9% since 2020)
2,226 square miles of land · 6 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.
10 active community water systems list Goshen County in the area they serve, reporting 8,957 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| TORRINGTON MUNICIPAL WATER DEPT, CITY OF groundwater · local government · WY5600164 | 6,847 served |
| LINGLE, TOWN OF groundwater · local government · WY5600030 | 486 served |
| SOUTH TORRINGTON WATER DISTRICT buys groundwater · private · WY5600168 | 450 served |
| LA GRANGE, TOWN OF groundwater · local government · WY5600788 | 448 served |
| FORT LARAMIE, TOWN OF groundwater · local government · WY5600185 | 230 served |
| YODER, TOWN OF groundwater · local government · WY5600169 | 131 served |
| DILLMAN ESTATES groundwater · private · WY5601248 | 100 served |
| STONE CREEK HOA groundwater · private · WY5601586 | 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 25 people were held in Goshen County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 325 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 23.
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.
1 school district has its office in Goshen County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $40.4 million — $38 million to run schools, about $22,948 per student, plus $2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $10.6 million local (mostly property tax), $21.1 million state, $6.2 million 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 Goshen County about $9.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Low; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
106 bridges in Goshen County: 19 in good condition, 82 fair, and 5 poor (4.7%). “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.
| WYO 154 over Fort Laramie Canal · built 1962 | 681 vehicles a day |
| Go Cnty Rd 29C over Fort Laramie Canal · built 1973 | 155 vehicles a day |
| Go Cnty Rd 136 over Unnamed Draw · built 1983 | 69 vehicles a day |
| Go Cnty Rd 35D over Fort Laramie Canal · built 1925 | 52 vehicles a day |
| Go Cnty Rd 43E over Springer Main Lateral · built 1973 | 7 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $11 million of work in Goshen County in fiscal 2025, about $883 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 Wyoming 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 Goshen 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 Goshen County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Platte County (31 mi) · Scotts Bluff County, NE (37 mi) · Sioux County, NE (41 mi) · Banner County, NE (50 mi) · Laramie County (57 mi) · Box Butte County, NE (66 mi).