County / FIPS 21233
Webster County
Kentucky
Webster County runs 7 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; Kentucky has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
7
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
332
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
12,842
Median household income
$59,628
Poverty rate
13.5%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$112,900
Median gross rent
$783
Bachelor's degree or higher
12.8%
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 Webster County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$100.6M
Per resident
$7,729
Change since FY2021
+12%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $90M |
| 2022 | $92M |
| 2023 | $86M |
| 2024 | $89M |
| 2025 | $101M |
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 2348th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in Webster County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clay Elementary School | Webster County | Clay | 194 |
| Dixon Elementary School | Webster County | Dixon | 303 |
| Providence Elementary School | Webster County | Providence | 290 |
| Sebree Elementary School | Webster County | Sebree | 390 |
| Webster County High School | Webster County | Dixon | 676 |
| Webster County Middle School | Webster County | Dixon | 315 |
| Webster County Area Technology Center | Kentucky Tech System | Dixon | — |