7,662 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.0% since 2020)
2,239 square miles of land · 3 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.
4 active community water systems list Washakie County in the area they serve, reporting 6,202 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| WORLAND UTILITIES COMMISSION groundwater · local government · WY5600197 | 4,787 served |
| WASHAKIE RURAL WATER SYSTEM buys groundwater · private · WY5601523 | 990 served |
| TEN SLEEP, TOWN OF groundwater · local government · WY5600203 | 400 served |
| BIG HORN REGIONAL JPB groundwater · local government · WY5601630 | 25 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 27 people were held in Washakie County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 582 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 12.
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 Washakie County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $25.9 million — $23.4 million to run schools, about $20,523 per student, plus $2.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.9 million local (mostly property tax), $15.9 million state, $3.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.2 million.
Spent $6.3 million — $3.6 million to run schools, about $34,695 per student, plus $2.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $1.5 million local (mostly property tax), $4.8 million state, $119,000 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 Washakie County about $6.1 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
60 bridges in Washakie County: 22 in good condition, 32 fair, and 6 poor (10.0%). “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.
| Washakie Avenue over Lower Hanover Canal · built 1970 | 1,495 vehicles a day |
| Culbertson Avenue over Big Horn River · built 1934 | 1,045 vehicles a day |
| WYO 435 over Tensleep Creek · built 1929 | 164 vehicles a day |
| Wa Cnty Rd R34 over Spillway Hanover Canal · built 1929 | 119 vehicles a day |
| Wa Cnty Rd 580A over Big Cottonwood Creek · built 1937 | 16 vehicles a day |
| Wa Cnty Rd 580 over East Fork Sand Creek · built 1935 | 4 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $8.3 million of work in Washakie County in fiscal 2025, about $1,075 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 Washakie 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 Washakie County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Hot Springs County (40 mi) · Big Horn County (47 mi) · Johnson County (55 mi) · Sheridan County (74 mi) · Fremont County (74 mi) · Natrona County (77 mi).