County / FIPS 29161
Phelps County
Missouri
Phelps 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
672
Phelps 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
45,194
Median household income
$58,396
Poverty rate
16.8%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$206,500
Median gross rent
$798
Bachelor's degree or higher
32.4%
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 Phelps County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$334.1M
Per resident
$7,485
Change since FY2021
−4%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $346M |
| 2022 | $287M |
| 2023 | $311M |
| 2024 | $300M |
| 2025 | $334M |
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. Phelps County ranks 1161st of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Phelps County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Phelps County Regional Medical Center | Rolla |
Public schools in Phelps County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Col. John B. Wyman Elem. | Rolla 31 | Rolla | 482 |
| Harry S. Truman Elem. | Rolla 31 | Rolla | 431 |
| Lucy Wortham James Elem. | St. James R-I | St James | 743 |
| Mark Twain Elem. | Rolla 31 | Rolla | 470 |
| Newburg Elem. | Newburg R-Ii | Newburg | 194 |
| Newburg High | Newburg R-Ii | Newburg | 208 |
| Phelps Co. Elem. | Phelps Co. R-Iii | Edgar Springs | 157 |
| Rolla Jr. High | Rolla 31 | Rolla | 618 |
| Rolla Middle | Rolla 31 | Rolla | 837 |
| Rolla Sr. High | Rolla 31 | Rolla | 1,323 |
| St. James High | St. James R-I | St James | 553 |
| St. James Middle | St. James R-I | St James | 370 |
| B W Robinson School | Mo Schls for the Sev Disabled | Rolla | 32 |
| Rolla Technical Inst. | Rolla 31 | Rolla | — |
| Rolla Technical Ctr. | Rolla 31 | Rolla | — |