County / FIPS 48117
Deaf Smith County
Texas
Deaf Smith County runs 9 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 1 Medicare-certified hospital reporting to CMS.
At a glance
Public schools
9
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
0
Land area
1,497
Deaf Smith 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
18,460
Median household income
$60,799
Poverty rate
17.7%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$121,300
Median gross rent
$926
Bachelor's degree or higher
11.4%
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 Deaf Smith County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$120.7M
Per resident
$6,495
Change since FY2021
−18%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $147M |
| 2022 | $108M |
| 2023 | $77M |
| 2024 | $81M |
| 2025 | $121M |
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. Deaf Smith County ranks 2168th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Deaf Smith County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Hereford Regional Medical Center | Hereford | Not rated |
Public schools in Deaf Smith County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aikman El | Hereford ISD | Hereford | 378 |
| Bluebonnet El | Hereford ISD | Hereford | 404 |
| Hereford H S | Hereford ISD | Hereford | 1,176 |
| Hereford J H | Hereford ISD | Hereford | 599 |
| Hereford Preparatory Academy | Hereford ISD | Hereford | 299 |
| Northwest El | Hereford ISD | Hereford | 456 |
| Tierra Blanca Early Childhood Center | Hereford ISD | Hereford | 279 |
| Walcott El | Walcott ISD | Hereford | 148 |
| West Central El | Hereford ISD | Hereford | 361 |