County / FIPS 29013
Bates County
Missouri
Bates County runs 15 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
15
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
1
Land area
837
Bates 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
16,186
Median household income
$60,733
Poverty rate
15.9%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$170,800
Median gross rent
$786
Bachelor's degree or higher
14.8%
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 Bates County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$174.5M
Per resident
$10,878
Change since FY2021
+33%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $132M |
| 2022 | $110M |
| 2023 | $109M |
| 2024 | $104M |
| 2025 | $175M |
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. Bates County ranks 1763rd of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Bates County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Bates County Memorial Hospital | Butler |
Public schools in Bates County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adrian Elem. | Adrian R-Iii | Adrian | 313 |
| Adrian Sr. High | Adrian R-Iii | Adrian | 417 |
| Ballard Elem. | Ballard R-Ii | Butler | 54 |
| Ballard High | Ballard R-Ii | Butler | 50 |
| Butler Early Childhood | Butler R-V | Butler | 73 |
| Butler Elem. | Butler R-V | Butler | 420 |
| Butler High | Butler R-V | Butler | 504 |
| Hudson Elem. | Hudson R-Ix | Appleton City | 50 |
| Hume Elem. | Hume R-Viii | Hume | 54 |
| Hume High | Hume R-Viii | Hume | 58 |
| Miami Elem. | Miami R-I | Amoret | 95 |
| Miami High | Miami R-I | Amoret | 81 |
| Rich Hill Elem. | Rich Hill R-Iv | Rich Hill | 173 |
| Rich Hill High | Rich Hill R-Iv | Rich Hill | 185 |
| Rich Hill Youth Dev. Ctr. | Division of Youth Service | Rich Hill | — |