<![CDATA[While farmers are pivotal for community food security, their socio-economic welfare remains structurally marginalized. This study investigates the socio-spatial heterogeneity of farmer households in Kincang Village, Madiun Regency, and examines, from a geography education perspective, how location relative to natural irrigation is associated with the formation of distinct welfare clusters. A descriptive quantitative survey was conducted with 69 households, drawn from a population of 224 farming households using the Slovin formula. Welfare was classified using the 21 BKKBN indicators, and descriptive statistics and cross-tabulations were used to relate welfare tiers to education, income, dependency burden, and location. Results reveal pronounced socio-economic stratification, with 29.0% of households classified as "under-prosperous," whereas a mere 11.6% attained Welfare Category III+ status. Despite being within the productive age range, 47.8% of respondents possess only an elementary education. Welfare tiers track educational attainment closely: all under-prosperous households are headed by elementary school graduates, whereas all D3 and S1 graduates belong to the KS-III+ tier. Mapping shows that higher welfare tiers cluster in the central and southern zones, where irrigation access is stronger, while under-prosperous households concentrate in the water-scarce north. These findings suggest that welfare stratification in Kincang emerges from the interaction of uneven hydrological resources, low income, and limited educational capital rather than from physical geography alone. For geography education, the study identifies the farming village as a site of geographical learning beyond the classroom and points to community-based, non-formal programs that build farmers' spatial literacy as one way of responding to local environmental inequality.]]>
