 About 3.0% of families and 6.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.7% of those under age 18 and 3.8% of those age 65 or over.Before the southwest corner of Gage County was home to Odell, it was part of the Otoe Indian Reservation.Odell was laid out in 1880 when the railroad was extended to that point.