County / FIPS 29157
Perry County
Missouri
Perry County runs 6 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
6
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
1
Land area
474
Perry 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
18,976
Median household income
$62,981
Poverty rate
13.9%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$188,200
Median gross rent
$923
Bachelor's degree or higher
20.9%
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 Perry County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$162.5M
Per resident
$8,572
Change since FY2021
+32%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $123M |
| 2022 | $231M |
| 2023 | $134M |
| 2024 | $144M |
| 2025 | $162M |
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. Perry County ranks 1852nd of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Perry County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Mercy Hospital Perry | Perryville |
Public schools in Perry County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Altenburg Elem. | Altenburg 48 | Altenburg | 110 |
| Perry Co. Middle | Perry Co. 32 | Perryville | 461 |
| Perryville Elem. | Perry Co. 32 | Perryville | 423 |
| Perryville Primary Center | Perry Co. 32 | Perryville | 505 |
| Perryville Sr. High | Perry Co. 32 | Perryville | 755 |
| Perryville Area Car Tech Ctr | Perry Co. 32 | Perryville | — |