County / FIPS 12093
Okeechobee County
Florida
Okeechobee County runs 13 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 1 Medicare-certified hospital reporting to CMS, of which 1 carry an overall star rating.
At a glance
Public schools
13
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
1
Land area
769
Okeechobee 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
40,816
Median household income
$57,984
Poverty rate
18.0%
Unemployment rate
4.4%
Median home value
$193,000
Median gross rent
$1,082
Bachelor's degree or higher
15.8%
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Okeechobee County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$288.9M
Per resident
$7,288
Change since FY2021
+23%
Fiscal years covered
5
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| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $235M |
| 2022 | $235M |
| 2023 | $246M |
| 2024 | $261M |
| 2025 | $289M |
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. Okeechobee County ranks 1278th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Okeechobee County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Hca Florida Raulerson Hospital | Okeechobee |
Public schools in Okeechobee County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Central Elementary School | Okeechobee | Okeechobee | 530 |
| Everglades Elementary School | Okeechobee | Okeechobee | 760 |
| North Elementary School | Okeechobee | Okeechobee | 576 |
| Okeechobee Achievement Academy | Okeechobee | Okeechobee | 199 |
| Okeechobee High School | Okeechobee | Okeechobee | 1,692 |
| Okeechobee Virtual Franchise | Okeechobee | Okeechobee | 89 |
| Osceola Middle School | Okeechobee | Okeechobee | 753 |
| Seminole Elementary School | Okeechobee | Okeechobee | 502 |
| South Elementary School | Okeechobee | Okeechobee | 573 |
| Yearling Middle School | Okeechobee | Okeechobee | 668 |
| Tantie | Okeechobee | Okeechobee | 53 |
| Student Serv./Special Programs | Okeechobee | Okeechobee | 3 |
| Okeechobee Virtual Instruction Program | Okeechobee | Okeechobee | — |