10,120 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.1% since 2020)
2,412 square miles of land · 4 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.
7 active community water systems list Holt County in the area they serve, reporting 6,410 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| ONEILL, CITY OF groundwater · local government · NE3108904 | 3,705 served |
| ATKINSON, CITY OF groundwater · local government · NE3108905 | 1,298 served |
| STUART, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · NE3108906 | 486 served |
| EWING, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · NE3108902 | 367 served |
| CHAMBERS, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · NE3108901 | 288 served |
| PAGE, VILLAGE OF groundwater · local government · NE3108903 | 166 served |
| EAST PARK ESTATES groundwater · private · NE3108908 | 100 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 10 people were held in Holt County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 172 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 11.
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 Holt County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $13.8 million — $13.3 million to run schools, about $16,000 per student, plus $149,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11.2 million local (mostly property tax), $3.3 million state, $1.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.7 million.
Spent $8.5 million — $7.8 million to run schools, about $17,070 per student, plus $415,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.1 million local (mostly property tax), $1.2 million state, $715,000 federal. Long-term debt: $3.8 million.
Spent $8.6 million — $3.6 million to run schools, about $17,965 per student, plus $4.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.1 million local (mostly property tax), $1.6 million state, $302,000 federal. Long-term debt: $4 million.
Spent $2.8 million — $2.7 million to run schools, about $22,714 per student. Money in: $2.2 million local (mostly property tax), $442,000 state, $170,000 federal. Long-term debt: $217,000.
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 Holt County about $7 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
242 bridges in Holt County: 199 in good condition, 39 fair, and 4 poor (1.7%). “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.
| US20/US275 over ELKHORN RIVER · built 1937 | 3,315 vehicles a day |
| TOWNSHIP ROAD over BLACKBIRD CREEK · built 1935 | 20 vehicles a day |
| TOWNSHIP ROAD over STREAM · built 1935 | 15 vehicles a day |
| TOWNSHIP ROAD over DRY CREEK · built 1935 | 5 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $9.9 million of work in Holt County in fiscal 2025, about $979 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 Holt 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 Holt County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Boyd County (30 mi) · Rock County (33 mi) · Garfield County (39 mi) · Wheeler County (39 mi) · Antelope County (42 mi) · Knox County (47 mi).