County / FIPS 19079
Hamilton County
Iowa
Hamilton County runs 8 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
8
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
1
Land area
577
Hamilton 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
14,886
Median household income
$72,432
Poverty rate
7.4%
Unemployment rate
4.8%
Median home value
$156,400
Median gross rent
$877
Bachelor's degree or higher
22.8%
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Hamilton County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$107.1M
Per resident
$7,120
Change since FY2021
−0%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $107M |
| 2022 | $91M |
| 2023 | $97M |
| 2024 | $91M |
| 2025 | $107M |
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. Hamilton County ranks 2290th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Hamilton County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Van Diest Medical Center | Webster City |
Public schools in Hamilton County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northeast Hamilton Elementary School | Webster City Comm School District | Webster City | 225 |
| Pleasant View Elementary School | Webster City Comm School District | Webster City | 216 |
| South Hamilton Elem | South Hamilton Comm School District | Jewell | 362 |
| South Hamilton Middle and High School | South Hamilton Comm School District | Jewell | 328 |
| Stratford Elementary | Stratford Comm School District | Stratford | 80 |
| Sunset Heights Elementary School | Webster City Comm School District | Webster City | 288 |
| Webster City High School | Webster City Comm School District | Webster City | 547 |
| Webster City Middle School | Webster City Comm School District | Webster City | 455 |