County / FIPS 47175
Van Buren County
Tennessee
Van Buren County runs 2 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; Tennessee has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
2
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
273
Van Buren 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
6,437
Median household income
$54,931
Poverty rate
Not published
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$159,200
Median gross rent
Not published
Bachelor's degree or higher
13.7%
3 figures are 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 Van Buren County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$48.7M
Per resident
$7,890
Change since FY2021
+19%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $41M |
| 2022 | $40M |
| 2023 | $49M |
| 2024 | $47M |
| 2025 | $49M |
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. Van Buren County ranks 2900th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in Van Buren County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spencer Elementary | Van Buren County | Spencer | 394 |
| Van Buren Co High School | Van Buren County | Spencer | 400 |