County / FIPS 29011
Barton County
Missouri
Barton County runs 10 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 1 Medicare-certified hospital reporting to CMS.
At a glance
Public schools
10
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
0
Land area
592
Barton 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
11,690
Median household income
$51,635
Poverty rate
20.2%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$136,500
Median gross rent
$805
Bachelor's degree or higher
17.4%
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 Barton County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$98.2M
Per resident
$8,442
Change since FY2021
+16%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $85M |
| 2022 | $86M |
| 2023 | $75M |
| 2024 | $82M |
| 2025 | $98M |
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. Barton County ranks 2372nd of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Barton County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Cox Barton County Hospital | Lamar | Not rated |
Public schools in Barton County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Elem. | Lamar R-I | Lamar | 275 |
| Golden City Elem. | Golden City R-Iii | Golden City | 71 |
| Golden City High | Golden City R-Iii | Golden City | 84 |
| Lamar Elem. | Lamar R-I | Lamar | 268 |
| Lamar High | Lamar R-I | Lamar | 393 |
| Lamar Middle | Lamar R-I | Lamar | 266 |
| Liberal Elem. | Liberal R-Ii | Liberal | 119 |
| Liberal High | Liberal R-Ii | Liberal | 116 |
| Liberal Middle | Liberal R-Ii | Liberal | 66 |
| Lamar Careertechnical Center | Lamar R-I | Lamar | — |