County / FIPS 47141
Putnam County
Tennessee
Putnam County runs 22 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
22
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
1
Land area
401
Putnam 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
82,558
Median household income
$58,912
Poverty rate
18.4%
Unemployment rate
3.7%
Median home value
$282,500
Median gross rent
$908
Bachelor's degree or higher
29.8%
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Putnam County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$614.2M
Per resident
$7,692
Change since FY2021
+3%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $598M |
| 2022 | $500M |
| 2023 | $522M |
| 2024 | $550M |
| 2025 | $614M |
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. Putnam County ranks 768th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Putnam County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Cookeville Regional Medical Center | Cookeville |
Public schools in Putnam County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algood Elementary | Putnam County | Algood | 521 |
| Algood Middle School | Putnam County | Cookeville | 757 |
| Avery Trace Middle School | Putnam County | Cookeville | 720 |
| Baxter Primary | Putnam County | Baxter | 328 |
| Burks Elementary | Putnam County | Monterey | 522 |
| Cane Creek Elementary | Putnam County | Cookeville | 437 |
| Capshaw Elementary | Putnam County | Cookeville | 521 |
| Cookeville High School | Putnam County | Cookeville | 2,199 |
| Cornerstone Elementary | Putnam County | Baxter | 358 |
| Jere Whitson Elementary | Putnam County | Cookeville | 327 |
| Monterey High School | Putnam County | Monterey | 572 |
| Northeast Elementary | Putnam County | Cookeville | 435 |
| Park View Elementary | Putnam County | Cookeville | 439 |
| Prescott South Elementary | Putnam County | Cookeville | 558 |
| Prescott South Middle School | Putnam County | Cookeville | 812 |
| Putnam County Vital | Putnam County | Cookeville | 301 |
| Sycamore Elementary | Putnam County | Cookeville | 298 |
| Upperman High School | Putnam County | Baxter | 903 |
| Upperman Middle School | Putnam County | Baxter | 853 |
| White Plains Academy | Putnam County | Algood | 108 |
| T T U Child Development Lab | Putnam County | Cookeville | 20 |
| Putnam Co Adult High School | Putnam County | Cookeville | 43 |