County / FIPS 05005
Baxter County
Arkansas
Baxter County runs 11 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 2 Medicare-certified hospitals reporting to CMS, of which 1 carry an overall star rating.
At a glance
Public schools
11
Hospitals
2
With a star rating
1
Land area
554
Baxter County in numbers
American Community Survey five-year estimates ending 2024. These are sample estimates, not a count — each carries a margin of error, and where that margin is too wide to mean anything the figure is withheld rather than printed.
Population
42,407
Median household income
$48,452
Poverty rate
15.5%
Unemployment rate
6.3%
Median home value
$174,600
Median gross rent
$846
Bachelor's degree or higher
19.4%
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Baxter County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$457.9M
Per resident
$11,000
Change since FY2021
+21%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $379M |
| 2022 | $411M |
| 2023 | $400M |
| 2024 | $412M |
| 2025 | $458M |
Figures are nominal — not adjusted for inflation — because USAspending publishes them that way and adjusting them here would mean this site had edited a government figure. The per-resident figure divides by the 2020 decennial count, which is the population USAspending carries; a 2020 denominator against 2025 spending overstates per-head figures wherever a place has grown since. Baxter County ranks 923rd of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Baxter County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Baxter Health | Mountain Home | |
| Izard Regional Hospital Llc | Calico Rock | Not rated |
Public schools in Baxter County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amanda Gist Elementary School | Cotter School District | Cotter | 397 |
| Arrie Goforth Elementary School | Norfork School District | Norfork | 253 |
| Cotter High School | Cotter School District | Cotter | 331 |
| Guy Berry College and Career Academy | Mountain Home School District | Mountain Home | 53 |
| Hackler Intermediate School | Mountain Home School District | Mountain Home | 830 |
| Mountain Home Kindergarten | Mountain Home School District | Mountain Home | 337 |
| Mtn Home High Career Academics | Mountain Home School District | Mountain Home | 1,518 |
| Nelson Wilks Herron Elementary | Mountain Home School District | Mountain Home | 552 |
| Norfork High School | Norfork School District | Norfork | 217 |
| Pinkston Middle School | Mountain Home School District | Mountain Home | 624 |
| Arkansas State University-Mountain Home Career Center | Asu - Mountain Home Career Center | Mountain Home | — |