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County / FIPS 06003

Alpine County

California

Alpine County runs 4 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; California has other facilities nearby.

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At a glance

Public schools

4schools

Hospitals

0facilities

With a star rating

0facilities

Land area

738sq mi

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Alpine 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

1,616people

3151st of 3,222

Median household income

$105,521

121st of 3,222

Poverty rate

10.0%

± 2.9% — wide margin, not ranked

Unemployment rate

Not published

Sample too small here — the margin exceeds the figure by too much to report.

Median home value

$590,200

89th of 3,222

Bachelor's degree or higher

41.1%

± 7.8% — wide margin, not ranked

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.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates. Margins of error are the Bureau’s own, at 90% confidence; margins for rates are derived using the Bureau’s published formulas.

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Federal money

Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Alpine County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.

Obligations, FY2025

$8.7M

3195th of 3,233 among counties

Per resident

$7,2292020 population

Change since FY2021

+3%nominal

Fiscal years covered

5years

Federal obligations in Alpine County, FY2021–FY2025
$5M$10M$15M$20M
$9M
202120232025
View as table
PeriodObligations
2021$8M
2022$9M
2023$10M
2024$19M
2025$9M

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. Alpine County ranks 3195th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.

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Public schools in Alpine County

Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.

Public schools in Alpine County
SchoolDistrictCityEnrollment
Diamond Valley ElementaryAlpine County UnifiedMarkleeville61
Bear Valley ElementaryAlpine County UnifiedMarkleeville7
Alpine County OpportunityAlpine County Office of EducationMarkleeville
Alpine County Secondary Community DayAlpine County UnifiedMarkleeville
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