County / FIPS 16037
Custer County
Idaho
Custer County runs 6 public schools reporting to NCES. No Medicare-certified hospital reports to CMS from here — a real finding about rural healthcare access, not a gap in this site; Idaho has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
6
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
4,922
Custer 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
4,470
Median household income
$67,574
Poverty rate
Not published
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$381,700
Median gross rent
$691
Bachelor's degree or higher
29.3%
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 Custer County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$56.6M
Per resident
$13,243
Change since FY2021
+40%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $40M |
| 2022 | $59M |
| 2023 | $51M |
| 2024 | $63M |
| 2025 | $57M |
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. Custer County ranks 2800th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in Custer County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Challis Elementary School | Challis Joint District | Challis | 158 |
| Challis Jr/Sr High School | Challis Joint District | Challis | 151 |
| Mackay Elementary School | Mackay Joint District | Mackay | 123 |
| Mackay Jr/Sr High School | Mackay Joint District | Mackay | 108 |
| Stanley Elem/Jr High School | Challis Joint District | Stanley | 19 |
| Clayton Elementary School | Challis Joint District | Clayton | — |