County / FIPS 19187
Webster County
Iowa
Webster County runs 11 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
11
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
1
Land area
716
Webster 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
36,886
Median household income
$68,975
Poverty rate
12.9%
Unemployment rate
4.8%
Median home value
$153,800
Median gross rent
$785
Bachelor's degree or higher
22.0%
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Webster County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$291.7M
Per resident
$7,884
Change since FY2021
−1%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $296M |
| 2022 | $244M |
| 2023 | $245M |
| 2024 | $239M |
| 2025 | $292M |
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. Webster County ranks 1269th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Webster County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Trinity Regional Medical Center | Fort Dodge |
Public schools in Webster County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Butler Elementary School | Fort Dodge Comm School District | Fort Dodge | 379 |
| Cooper Elementary School | Fort Dodge Comm School District | Fort Dodge | 252 |
| Dayton Center | Southeast Webster Grand Comm School District | Dayton | 199 |
| Duncombe Elementary School | Fort Dodge Comm School District | Fort Dodge | 461 |
| Early Childhood Center | Fort Dodge Comm School District | Fort Dodge | 385 |
| Feelhaver Elementary School | Fort Dodge Comm School District | Fort Dodge | 219 |
| Fort Dodge High School | Fort Dodge Comm School District | Fort Dodge | 1,072 |
| Fort Dodge Middle School | Fort Dodge Comm School District | Fort Dodge | 759 |
| Manson Northwest Webster Elementary | Manson Northwest Webster Comm School District | Barnum | 429 |
| Southeast Valley High School | Prairie Valley Comm School District | Gowrie | 331 |
| Southeast Webster-Grand Southeast Valley Middle | Southeast Webster Grand Comm School District | Burnside | 324 |