20,621 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.8% since 2020)
2,082 square miles of land · 10 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.
6 active community water systems list Uinta County in the area they serve, reporting 18,470 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| EVANSTON, CITY OF surface water · local government · WY5600150 | 11,727 served |
| LYMAN, TOWN OF groundwater (surface-influenced) · local government · WY5600033 | 2,203 served |
| BRIDGER VALLEY JOINT POWERS BOARD surface water · local government · WY5600757 | 1,728 served |
| MOUNTAIN VIEW, TOWN OF buys surface water · local government · WY5600847 | 1,250 served |
| BEAR RIVER REGIONAL JOINT POWERS buys surface water · public/private · WY5601019 | 1,200 served |
| LINDLEY PARK, LLC groundwater · private · WY5600820 | 362 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 57 people were held in Uinta County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 452 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 53.
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.
3 school districts have their office in Uinta County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $57.5 million — $49 million to run schools, about $18,437 per student, plus $7.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $12.3 million local (mostly property tax), $34.3 million state, $11.2 million federal.
Spent $15.9 million — $14.2 million to run schools, about $18,949 per student, plus $1.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.8 million local (mostly property tax), $10.9 million state, $1.4 million federal.
Spent $16.2 million — $15 million to run schools, about $20,714 per student, plus $993,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.4 million local (mostly property tax), $8 million state, $930,000 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 Uinta County about $7.9 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
132 bridges in Uinta County: 23 in good condition, 93 fair, and 16 poor (12.1%). “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.
| I-80 WBL over Yellow Creek Road · built 1967 | 8,996 vehicles a day |
| I-80 WBL over Blacks Fork River · built 1968 | 6,672 vehicles a day |
| Bear River Drive over Bear River · built 1941 | 2,961 vehicles a day |
| WYO 89 over Bear River Overflow · built 1978 | 2,003 vehicles a day |
| WYO 89 over Bear River · built 1978 | 2,003 vehicles a day |
| WYO 414 over Unnamed Draw · built 1961 | 614 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $16.1 million of work in Uinta County in fiscal 2025, about $786 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 Uinta 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 Uinta County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Summit County, UT (36 mi) · Rich County, UT (43 mi) · Morgan County, UT (54 mi) · Daggett County, UT (61 mi) · Lincoln County (66 mi) · Weber County, UT (68 mi).