County / FIPS 16045
Gem County
Idaho
Gem County runs 9 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 1 Medicare-certified hospital reporting to CMS.
At a glance
Public schools
9
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
0
Land area
560
Gem 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
20,614
Median household income
$64,605
Poverty rate
12.0%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$428,700
Median gross rent
$1,038
Bachelor's degree or higher
20.7%
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 Gem County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$156.8M
Per resident
$8,200
Change since FY2021
+18%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $133M |
| 2022 | $126M |
| 2023 | $135M |
| 2024 | $145M |
| 2025 | $157M |
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. Gem County ranks 1882nd of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Gem County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Valor Health | Emmett | Not rated |
Public schools in Gem County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Canyon Jr/Sr High School | Emmett Independent District | Emmett | 119 |
| Butte View School | Emmett Independent District | Emmett | 205 |
| Emmett High School | Emmett Independent District | Emmett | 737 |
| Emmett Middle School | Emmett Independent District | Emmett | 533 |
| Kenneth J Carberry Elementary | Emmett Independent District | Emmett | 489 |
| Shadow Butte Elementary School | Emmett Independent District | Emmett | 463 |
| Ola Elementary School | Emmett Independent District | Ola | 18 |
| Sweet Montour Elementary School | Emmett Independent District | Sweet | 44 |
| Payette River Technical Academy | Emmett Independent District | Emmett | — |