County / FIPS 31181
Webster County
Nebraska
Webster County runs 5 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 1 Medicare-certified hospital reporting to CMS.
At a glance
Public schools
5
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
0
Land area
575
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
3,360
Median household income
$64,347
Poverty rate
9.6%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$117,600
Median gross rent
Not published
Bachelor's degree or higher
21.2%
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 Webster County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$39.0M
Per resident
$11,480
Change since FY2021
+3%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $38M |
| 2022 | $29M |
| 2023 | $29M |
| 2024 | $25M |
| 2025 | $39M |
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 2988th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Webster County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Webster County Community Hospital | Red Cloud | Not rated |
Public schools in Webster County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Hill Elementary School | Blue Hill Community Schools | Blue Hill | 176 |
| Blue Hill High School | Blue Hill Community Schools | Blue Hill | 142 |
| Red Cloud Elementary School | Red Cloud Community Schools | Red Cloud | 163 |
| Red Cloud High School | Red Cloud Community Schools | Red Cloud | 106 |
| Silver Lake Elem Sch-Bladen | Silver Lake Public Schools | Bladen | 123 |