U.S. State / FIPS 05
Arkansas
Arkansas has 75 counties, 1,103 public schools and 90 Medicare-certified hospitals reporting to CMS — the 43 carrying an overall star rating average 2.86 out of 5.
At a glance
Counts come from the current release; nothing here is estimated.
Public schools
1,103
School districts
302
Hospitals
90
Counties
75
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Arkansas. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$34.9B
Per resident
$11,603
Change since FY2017
+46%
Fiscal years covered
9
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2017 | $24B |
| 2018 | $24B |
| 2019 | $25B |
| 2020 | $34B |
| 2021 | $37B |
| 2022 | $31B |
| 2023 | $32B |
| 2024 | $32B |
| 2025 | $35B |
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. Arkansas ranks 36th of 56 on this measure in FY2025.
Most complete reporters
Hospitals reporting the most quality measures to CMS. More measures means a fuller public record, not necessarily better care — the two are easy to confuse and are kept separate here.
- 1Baxter Health51 measures
- 2Chi St. Vincent Hospital Hot Springs51 measures
- 3Mercy Hospital Fort Smith51 measures
- 4Washington Regional Medical Center50 measures
- 5White County Medical Center50 measures
- 6Baptist Health Medical Center North Little Rock49 measures
- 7Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock49 measures
- 8Baptist Memorial Hospital Jonesboro, Inc.49 measures
- 9St Bernards Medical Center49 measures
- 10Baptist Health - Fort Smith48 measures
Hospitals in Arkansas
40 of 90 shown, ordered by how complete their public record is.
School districts in Arkansas
The 40 largest of 302 by enrollment. The full list, and every school in each district, is on the districts page.
Counties
All 75 counties, each with its own page.
Arkansas counties
- Arkansas
- Ashley
- Baxter
- Benton
- Boone
- Bradley
- Calhoun
- Carroll
- Chicot
- Clark
- Clay
- Cleburne
- Cleveland
- Columbia
- Conway
- Craighead
- Crawford
- Crittenden
- Cross
- Dallas
- Desha
- Drew
- Faulkner
- Franklin
- Fulton
- Garland
- Grant
- Greene
- Hempstead
- Hot Spring
- Howard
- Independence
- Izard
- Jackson
- Jefferson
- Johnson
- Lafayette
- Lawrence
- Lee
- Lincoln
- Little River
- Logan
- Lonoke
- Madison
- Marion
- Miller
- Mississippi
- Monroe
- Montgomery
- Nevada
- Newton
- Ouachita
- Perry
- Phillips
- Pike
- Poinsett
- Polk
- Pope
- Prairie
- Pulaski
- Randolph
- Saline
- Scott
- Searcy
- Sebastian
- Sevier
- Sharp
- St. Francis
- Stone
- Union
- Van Buren
- Washington
- White
- Woodruff
- Yell
Rankings covering this state
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