County / FIPS 05049
Fulton County
Arkansas
Fulton County runs 6 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 1 Medicare-certified hospital reporting to CMS.
At a glance
Public schools
6
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
0
Land area
618
Fulton 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
12,302
Median household income
$42,241
Poverty rate
18.0%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$113,800
Median gross rent
$626
Bachelor's degree or higher
16.0%
One figure is withheld above. The Census Bureau publishes them, but with a margin of error wider than 30% of the value — which for a place this size means the survey sampled too few households to say. They are left out rather than shown with a caveat nobody reads.
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Fulton County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$113.0M
Per resident
$9,361
Change since FY2021
+19%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $95M |
| 2022 | $98M |
| 2023 | $94M |
| 2024 | $103M |
| 2025 | $113M |
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. Fulton County ranks 2238th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Fulton County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Baxter Health Fulton County Hospital | Salem | Not rated |
Public schools in Fulton County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mammoth Spring Elem. School | Mammoth Spring School District | Mammoth Spring | 285 |
| Mammoth Spring High School | Mammoth Spring School District | Mammoth Spring | 223 |
| Salem Elementary School | Salem School District | Salem | 451 |
| Salem High School | Salem School District | Salem | 425 |
| Viola Elementary School | Viola School District | Viola | 210 |
| Viola High School | Viola School District | Viola | 177 |