County / FIPS 19151
Pocahontas County
Iowa
Pocahontas County runs 4 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 1 Medicare-certified hospital reporting to CMS.
At a glance
Public schools
4
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
0
Land area
577
Pocahontas 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
7,046
Median household income
$61,875
Poverty rate
10.3%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$98,100
Median gross rent
$832
Bachelor's degree or higher
18.7%
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 Pocahontas County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$66.9M
Per resident
$9,456
Change since FY2021
−13%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $77M |
| 2022 | $54M |
| 2023 | $49M |
| 2024 | $55M |
| 2025 | $67M |
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. Pocahontas County ranks 2688th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Pocahontas County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Pocahontas Community Hospital | Pocahontas | Not rated |
Public schools in Pocahontas County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laurens-Marathon Elementary School | Laurens-Marathon Comm School District | Laurens | 140 |
| Pocahontas Area Elementary School | Pocahontas Area Comm School District | Pocahontas | 283 |
| Pocahontas Area Middle/ High School | Pocahontas Area Comm School District | Pocahontas | 392 |
| Pocahontas Area Regional Learning Center | Pocahontas Area Comm School District | Pocahontas | 21 |