21,687 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.2% since 2020)
851 square miles of land · 25 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.
14 active community water systems list Gage County in the area they serve, reporting 17,433 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| BEATRICE, CITY OF groundwater · local government · NE3106705 | 12,220 served |
| WYMORE, CITY OF groundwater · local government · NE3106710 | 1,656 served |
| LOWER BIG BLUE NRD - WYMORE buys groundwater · private · NE3121368 | 856 served |
| ADAMS, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · NE3106712 | 606 served |
| CORTLAND, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · NE3106706 | 515 served |
| ODELL, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · NE3106708 | 320 served |
| CLATONIA, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · NE3106707 | 310 served |
| BLUE SPRINGS, CITY OF buys groundwater · local government · NE3106704 | 280 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 41 people were held in Gage County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 312 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 25.
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 Gage County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $30.2 million — $26.2 million to run schools, about $12,530 per student, plus $3.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $18.3 million local (mostly property tax), $9.1 million state, $2.7 million federal. Long-term debt: $2.7 million.
Spent $8.1 million — $7.2 million to run schools, about $15,013 per student, plus $552,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.1 million local (mostly property tax), $1.7 million state, $369,000 federal. Long-term debt: $4.5 million.
Spent $7.2 million — $6.2 million to run schools, about $16,485 per student, plus $504,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.5 million local (mostly property tax), $2.5 million state, $974,000 federal. Long-term debt: $673,000.
Spent $5.5 million — $5 million to run schools, about $21,191 per student, plus $253,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.1 million local (mostly property tax), $1 million state, $276,000 federal. Long-term debt: $875,000.
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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Gage County about $15.1 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.
394 bridges in Gage County: 137 in good condition, 223 fair, and 34 poor (8.6%). “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.
| N4 over CUB CREEK · built 1953 | 1,880 vehicles a day |
| N4 over BOTTLE CREEK · built 1954 | 1,880 vehicles a day |
| N4 over BIG BLUE TRIB · built 1954 | 1,880 vehicles a day |
| FAS 3265 over STREAM · built 1977 | 525 vehicles a day |
| FAS 2920 over CLATONIA CREEK · built 1972 | 475 vehicles a day |
| FAS 3305/SW 100 RD over CLATONIA CREEK · built 1935 | 430 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $11.8 million of work in Gage County in fiscal 2025, about $544 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 Gage 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 Gage County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Johnson County (24 mi) · Pawnee County (24 mi) · Jefferson County (25 mi) · Saline County (30 mi) · Marshall County, KS (34 mi) · Lancaster County (36 mi).