County / FIPS 47005
Benton County
Tennessee
Benton County runs 8 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 1 Medicare-certified hospital reporting to CMS.
At a glance
Public schools
8
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
0
Land area
394
Benton 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
16,006
Median household income
$51,746
Poverty rate
17.8%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$153,600
Median gross rent
$768
Bachelor's degree or higher
12.8%
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 Benton County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$214.9M
Per resident
$13,544
Change since FY2021
+81%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $118M |
| 2022 | $113M |
| 2023 | $124M |
| 2024 | $142M |
| 2025 | $215M |
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. Benton County ranks 1564th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Benton County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| West Tennessee Healthcare Camden Hospital | Camden | Not rated |
Public schools in Benton County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Sandy School | Benton County | Big Sandy | 288 |
| Briarwood School | Benton County | Camden | 381 |
| Camden Central High School | Benton County | Camden | 521 |
| Camden Elementary | Benton County | Camden | 473 |
| Camden Jr High School | Benton County | Camden | 371 |
| Holladay Elementary | Benton County | Holladay | 129 |
| Senator Frank P. Lashlee Career and Technical Center | Benton County | Camden | — |
| Benton County Academy | Benton County | Camden | — |