County / FIPS 19063
Emmet County
Iowa
Emmet County runs 4 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 1 Medicare-certified hospital reporting to CMS, of which 1 carry an overall star rating.
At a glance
Public schools
4
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
1
Land area
396
Emmet County in numbers
American Community Survey five-year estimates ending 2024. These are sample estimates, not a count — each carries a margin of error, and where that margin is too wide to mean anything the figure is withheld rather than printed.
Population
9,262
Median household income
$63,730
Poverty rate
Not published
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$114,100
Median gross rent
$733
Bachelor's degree or higher
17.1%
2 figures are withheld above. The Census Bureau publishes them, but with a margin of error wider than 30% of the value — which for a place this size means the survey sampled too few households to say. They are left out rather than shown with a caveat nobody reads.
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Emmet County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$78.3M
Per resident
$8,342
Change since FY2021
+6%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $74M |
| 2022 | $79M |
| 2023 | $67M |
| 2024 | $66M |
| 2025 | $78M |
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. Emmet County ranks 2560th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Emmet County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Avera Holy Family Hospital | Estherville |
Public schools in Emmet County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demoney Elementary | Estherville Lincoln Central Com Sch Dist | Estherville | 493 |
| Estherville Lincoln Central High School | Estherville Lincoln Central Com Sch Dist | Estherville | 384 |
| Estherville Lincoln Central Middle School | Estherville Lincoln Central Com Sch Dist | Estherville | 312 |
| North Union High School | North Union Comm School District | Armstrong | 194 |