County / FIPS 27033
Cottonwood County
Minnesota
Cottonwood County runs 13 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 2 Medicare-certified hospitals reporting to CMS.
At a glance
Public schools
13
Hospitals
2
With a star rating
0
Land area
640
Cottonwood 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
11,458
Median household income
$72,941
Poverty rate
15.0%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$169,300
Median gross rent
$817
Bachelor's degree or higher
24.1%
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 Cottonwood County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$110.1M
Per resident
$9,563
Change since FY2021
+17%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $94M |
| 2022 | $70M |
| 2023 | $68M |
| 2024 | $73M |
| 2025 | $110M |
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. Cottonwood County ranks 2261st of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Cottonwood County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Windom Area Health | Windom | Not rated |
| Sanford Westbrook Medical Center | Westbrook | Not rated |
Public schools in Cottonwood County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mountain Lake Elementary | Mountain Lake Public Schools | Mountain Lake | 257 |
| Mountain Lake Secondary | Mountain Lake Public Schools | Mountain Lake | 244 |
| Swwc Elc - Windom | Region 6 and 8-Sw/Wc Service Coop | Windom | 50 |
| Westbrook-Walnut Grove Secondary | Westbrook-Walnut Grove Schools | Westbrook | 183 |
| Windom Area Elementary | Windom Public School District | Windom | 547 |
| Windom Middle | Windom Public School District | Windom | 267 |
| Windom Senior High | Windom Public School District | Windom | 339 |
| Early Childhood Learning Center | Windom Public School District | Windom | 13 |
| Swwc Alc - Windom | Region 6 and 8-Sw/Wc Service Coop | Windom | 31 |
| Starrs Online Academy | Region 6 and 8-Sw/Wc Service Coop | Windom | — |
| Swwc Alc Midlevel - Windom | Region 6 and 8-Sw/Wc Service Coop | Windom | 1 |
| Starss Online Academy Elementary | Region 6 and 8-Sw/Wc Service Coop | Windom | — |
| Windom Learn Center Credit Recovery | Region 6 and 8-Sw/Wc Service Coop | Windom | — |