37,884 people (2024 Census estimate, +2.1% since 2020)
529 square miles of land · 72 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.
11 active community water systems list Dodge County in the area they serve, reporting 32,211 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| FREMONT, CITY OF groundwater · local government · NE3105312 | 27,230 served |
| NORTH BEND, CITY OF groundwater · local government · NE3105305 | 1,279 served |
| SCRIBNER, CITY OF groundwater · local government · NE3105302 | 857 served |
| HOOPER, CITY OF groundwater · local government · NE3105310 | 852 served |
| DODGE, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · NE3105307 | 612 served |
| MEADOWBROOK MOBILE HOME PARK buys groundwater · private · NE3105309 | 350 served |
| SNYDER, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · NE3105303 | 300 served |
| GREEN ACRES MOBILE HOME PARK groundwater · private · NE3105306 | 250 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 40 people were held in Dodge County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2010), or 176 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2005 it was about 40.
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.
4 school districts have their office in Dodge County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $124 million — $66.8 million to run schools, about $12,811 per student, plus $51.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $40.8 million local (mostly property tax), $27.7 million state, $13.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $112.6 million.
Spent $12 million — $8.9 million to run schools, about $15,086 per student, plus $2.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8.3 million local (mostly property tax), $2.2 million state, $757,000 federal. Long-term debt: $9 million.
Spent $12.2 million — $10.1 million to run schools, about $17,188 per student, plus $1.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8.9 million local (mostly property tax), $2.1 million state, $818,000 federal. Long-term debt: $7.4 million.
Spent $5.1 million — $4.8 million to run schools, about $28,164 per student, plus $28,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4 million local (mostly property tax), $660,000 state, $508,000 federal.
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 Dodge County about $33.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively High; social vulnerability: Very Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
338 bridges in Dodge County: 245 in good condition, 85 fair, and 8 poor (2.4%). “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.
| US30 over FREMONT CO DRAIN DITCH · built 1970 | 8,310 vehicles a day |
| US30 over STREAM · built 1950 | 5,365 vehicles a day |
| COLL 7852 over STREAM · built 1977 | 300 vehicles a day |
| TOWNSHIP ROAD over STREAM · built 1970 | 255 vehicles a day |
| TOWNSHIP ROAD over RAWHIDE CREEK · built 1955 | 200 vehicles a day |
| TOWNSHIP ROAD over DITCH #7 · built 1968 | 190 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $17.7 million of work in Dodge County in fiscal 2025, about $477 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 Dodge 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 Dodge County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Washington County (22 mi) · Colfax County (23 mi) · Saunders County (24 mi) · Cuming County (25 mi) · Burt County (25 mi) · Douglas County (32 mi).