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County / FIPS 31183

Wheeler County

Nebraska

Wheeler County runs 2 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.

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At a glance

Public schools

2schools

Hospitals

0facilities

With a star rating

0facilities

Land area

575sq mi

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Wheeler 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

847people

3194th of 3,222

Median household income

$70,250

± $12,189 — wide margin, not ranked

Poverty rate

Not published

Sample too small here — the margin exceeds the figure by too much to report.

Unemployment rate

Not published

Sample too small here — the margin exceeds the figure by too much to report.

Median home value

$146,500

± $31,557 — wide margin, not ranked

Median gross rent

$509

3161st of 3,222, tied with 2

Bachelor's degree or higher

30.3%

± 6.0% — wide margin, not ranked

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.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates. Margins of error are the Bureau’s own, at 90% confidence; margins for rates are derived using the Bureau’s published formulas.

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Federal money

Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Wheeler County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.

Obligations, FY2025

$5.3M

3209th of 3,233 among counties

Per resident

$6,8942020 population

Change since FY2021

−5%nominal

Fiscal years covered

5years

Federal obligations in Wheeler County, FY2021–FY2025
$5M$10M$15M
$5M
202120232025
View as table
PeriodObligations
2021$6M
2022$9M
2023$4M
2024$14M
2025$5M

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. Wheeler County ranks 3209th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.

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Public schools in Wheeler County

Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.

Public schools in Wheeler County
SchoolDistrictCityEnrollment
Wheeler Central Elementary #45Wheeler Central SchoolsBartlett83
Wheeler Central HighWheeler Central SchoolsBartlett44
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