County / FIPS 48351
Newton County
Texas
Newton County runs 6 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; Texas has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
6
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
934
Newton 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
12,093
Median household income
$42,618
Poverty rate
19.0%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$103,100
Median gross rent
$1,001
Bachelor's degree or higher
6.8%
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 Newton County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$73.0M
Per resident
$5,972
Change since FY2021
+6%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $69M |
| 2022 | $64M |
| 2023 | $68M |
| 2024 | $67M |
| 2025 | $73M |
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. Newton County ranks 2619th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in Newton County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burkeville School | Burkeville ISD | Burkeville | 229 |
| Deweyville El | Deweyville ISD | Orange | 268 |
| Deweyville H S | Deweyville ISD | Orange | 280 |
| Newton El | Newton ISD | Newton | 380 |
| Newton H S | Newton ISD | Newton | 255 |
| Newton Middle | Newton ISD | Newton | 333 |