County / FIPS 29229
Wright County
Missouri
Wright County runs 15 public schools reporting to NCES. No Medicare-certified hospital reports to CMS from here — a real finding about rural healthcare access, not a gap in this site; Missouri has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
15
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
682
Wright 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
18,965
Median household income
$47,909
Poverty rate
18.7%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$160,100
Median gross rent
$625
Bachelor's degree or higher
15.9%
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 Wright County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$137.8M
Per resident
$7,578
Change since FY2021
+11%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $124M |
| 2022 | $113M |
| 2023 | $123M |
| 2024 | $121M |
| 2025 | $138M |
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. Wright County ranks 2036th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in Wright County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grovespring Elem. | Hartville R-Ii | Grovespring | 84 |
| Hartville Elem. | Hartville R-Ii | Hartville | 294 |
| Hartville High | Hartville R-Ii | Hartville | 304 |
| Mansfield High | Mansfield R-Iv | Mansfield | 201 |
| Mansfield Jr. High | Mansfield R-Iv | Mansfield | 124 |
| Mountain Grove Elem. | Mountain Grove R-Iii | Mountain Grove | 688 |
| Mountain Grove High | Mountain Grove R-Iii | Mountain Grove | 444 |
| Mountain Grove Middle | Mountain Grove R-Iii | Mountain Grove | 476 |
| Norwood Elem. | Norwood R-I | Norwood | 140 |
| Norwood High | Norwood R-I | Norwood | 187 |
| Wilder Elem. | Mansfield R-Iv | Mansfield | 269 |
| Manes R-V School District | Manes R-V | Mountain Grove | 47 |
| Skyview School | Mo Schls for the Sev Disabled | Mountain Grove | 4 |
| Ozark Mountain Technical Ctr. | Mountain Grove R-Iii | Mountain Grove | — |
| Ozark Regional Juvenile Det Ct | Mountain Grove R-Iii | Mountain Grove | 3 |