8,952 people (2024 Census estimate, −0.7% since 2020)
570 square miles of land · 16 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
5 active community water systems list Cuming County in the area they serve, reporting 7,810 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| WEST POINT, CITY OF groundwater · local government · NE3103904 | 3,550 served |
| CUMING CO RWD 1 groundwater · local government · NE3102522 | 1,875 served |
| WISNER, CITY OF groundwater · local government · NE3103903 | 1,239 served |
| BEEMER, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · NE3103902 | 650 served |
| BANCROFT, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · NE3103901 | 496 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 1 people were held in Cuming County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (1978), or 15 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 1970 it was about 12.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
3 school districts have their office in Cuming County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $13.5 million — $12.1 million to run schools, about $16,578 per student, plus $903,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $10.8 million local (mostly property tax), $2 million state, $1.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $3 million.
Spent $8.9 million — $8.5 million to run schools, about $19,561 per student, plus $73,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.8 million local (mostly property tax), $1.7 million state, $446,000 federal. Long-term debt: $918,000.
Spent $5.9 million — $5.5 million to run schools, about $17,765 per student, plus $218,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.8 million local (mostly property tax), $1.6 million state, $980,000 federal. Long-term debt: $657,000.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Cuming County about $17.4 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
402 bridges in Cuming County: 100 in good condition, 294 fair, and 8 poor (2.0%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| US275 over STREAM · built 1931 | 5,025 vehicles a day |
| IRR/N16 over JEPPSON CREEK · built 1945 | 830 vehicles a day |
| IRR/N16 over RATTLESNAKE CREEK · built 1938 | 830 vehicles a day |
| 14 ROAD over PLUM CREEK · built 1912 | 50 vehicles a day |
| O ROAD over PLUM CREEK · built 1935 | 40 vehicles a day |
| 10 ROAD over PLUM CREEK · built 1935 | 30 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $10.4 million of work in Cuming County in fiscal 2025, about $1,158 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Nebraska are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Cuming County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Cuming County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Stanton County (20 mi) · Thurston County (21 mi) · Burt County (24 mi) · Dodge County (25 mi) · Wayne County (27 mi) · Colfax County (28 mi).