County / FIPS 31087
Hitchcock County
Nebraska
Hitchcock County runs 4 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; Nebraska has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
4
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
710
Hitchcock 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
2,569
Median household income
$51,567
Poverty rate
12.8%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$96,700
Median gross rent
$714
Bachelor's degree or higher
20.9%
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 Hitchcock County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$27.6M
Per resident
$10,533
Change since FY2021
+1%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $27M |
| 2022 | $34M |
| 2023 | $24M |
| 2024 | $25M |
| 2025 | $28M |
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. Hitchcock County ranks 3095th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in Hitchcock County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hitchcock Co Elementary | Hitchcock Co Sch System | Culbertson | 187 |
| Hitchcock Co Jr/Sr High School | Hitchcock Co Sch System | Trenton | 123 |
| Palisade Attendance Center | Wauneta-Palisade Public Schs | Palisade | 107 |
| Stratton Elementary School | Dundy Co Stratton Public Schs | Stratton | — |