County / FIPS 08027
Custer County
Colorado
Custer County runs 3 public schools reporting to NCES. No Medicare-certified hospital reports to CMS from here — a real finding about rural healthcare access, not a gap in this site; Colorado has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
3
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
739
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Custer County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$64.6M
Per resident
$13,730
Change since FY2021
+47%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $44M |
| 2022 | $51M |
| 2023 | $61M |
| 2024 | $57M |
| 2025 | $65M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Custer County ranks 2715th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in Custer County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Custer County Elementary School | Custer County School District Consolidate 1 | Westcliffe | 165 |
| Custer County High School | Custer County School District Consolidate 1 | Westcliffe | 114 |
| Custer Middle School | Custer County School District Consolidate 1 | Westcliffe | 75 |