County / FIPS 06049
Modoc County
California
Modoc County runs 10 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 2 Medicare-certified hospitals reporting to CMS, of which 1 carry an overall star rating.
At a glance
Public schools
10
Hospitals
2
With a star rating
1
Land area
3,948
Modoc 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
8,600
Median household income
$59,455
Poverty rate
Not published
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$224,700
Median gross rent
$836
Bachelor's degree or higher
24.8%
2 figures are 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 Modoc County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$85.7M
Per resident
$9,848
Change since FY2021
−38%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $138M |
| 2022 | $97M |
| 2023 | $80M |
| 2024 | $80M |
| 2025 | $86M |
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. Modoc County ranks 2487th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Modoc County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Modoc Medical Center | Alturas | |
| Surprise Valley Community Hospital | Cedarville | Not rated |
Public schools in Modoc County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alturas Elementary | Modoc Joint Unified | Alturas | 389 |
| Modoc High | Modoc Joint Unified | Alturas | 227 |
| Modoc Middle | Modoc Joint Unified | Alturas | 192 |
| Surprise Valley Elementary | Surprise Valley Joint Unified | Cedarville | 52 |
| Surprise Valley High | Surprise Valley Joint Unified | Cedarville | 44 |
| High Desert Community Day | Modoc Joint Unified | Alturas | 3 |
| State Line Elementary | Modoc Joint Unified | New Pine Creek | 3 |
| Warner High | Modoc Joint Unified | Alturas | 18 |
| Modoc County Rop | Modoc County Rop | Alturas | — |
| Modoc County Special Education | Modoc County Office of Education | Alturas | — |