According to the 2000 census the island had 13 permanent residents. As of January 2007, there were roughly two dozen permanent residents residing on the island's 12 privately owned properties.

North Bass Island Airport  offers a  paved airstrip.  Air traffic for take-off and landings to the north are complex as the Canadian border is challenging to avoid with less than two (2) miles from the runway threshold. The runway underwent significant improvement October 2019 with a $2.338 MM grant from the FAA, the first improvement since the runway was originally paved in 1995.  The runway is part of the Put-in-Bay Port Authority.

North Bass Island has no ferry service but has maintained a dock for commercial grape activity since 1880 with substantial improvements and additions asA man stabbed another with a samurai sword after an argument Saturday night in a north Minneapolis apartment, police said.

A resident had asked two visitors to leave his apartment after a gathering, and when they refused, he tried to stab 51-year-old Michael Lipscomb in the stomach with a samurai sword, police said. Lipscomb blocked the strike with a book bag, according to a police report, but the blade ended up hitting his left elbow.

When officers arrived to the Newton Avenue N. apartment building, they found Lipscomb out front with T-shirts wrapped around his bloodied arm.

Sgt. Steve McCarty said Monday that in his 20 years of police work, he's seen a samurai sword used as a weapon "maybe one, two other times. It's not a common weapon that we