County / FIPS 19087
Henry County
Iowa
Henry County runs 12 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 1 Medicare-certified hospital reporting to CMS.
At a glance
Public schools
12
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
0
Land area
434
Henry 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
20,004
Median household income
$67,436
Poverty rate
12.0%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$164,300
Median gross rent
$820
Bachelor's degree or higher
23.0%
One figure is 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 Henry County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$132.9M
Per resident
$6,487
Change since FY2021
−4%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $138M |
| 2022 | $109M |
| 2023 | $115M |
| 2024 | $127M |
| 2025 | $133M |
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. Henry County ranks 2075th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Henry County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Henry County Health Center | Mount Pleasant | Not rated |
Public schools in Henry County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clark Elementary School | New London Comm School District | New London | 289 |
| Harlan Elementary School | Mount Pleasant Comm School District | Mount Pleasant | 220 |
| Lincoln Elementary School | Mount Pleasant Comm School District | Mount Pleasant | 211 |
| Mount Pleasant High School | Mount Pleasant Comm School District | Mount Pleasant | 582 |
| Mount Pleasant Middle School | Mount Pleasant Comm School District | Mount Pleasant | 406 |
| New London Jr-Sr High School | New London Comm School District | New London | 303 |
| Salem Elementary School | Mount Pleasant Comm School District | Mt. Pleasant | 97 |
| Van Allen Elementary School | Mount Pleasant Comm School District | Mount Pleasant | 315 |
| Waco High School | Waco Comm School District | Wayland | 215 |
| Winfield Elementary School | Winfield-Mt Union Comm School District | Winfield | 190 |
| Winfield-Mt Union Jr-Sr High School | Winfield-Mt Union Comm School District | Winfield | 201 |
| Wisdomquest Education Center | Mount Pleasant Comm School District | Mount Pleasant | 20 |