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County / FIPS 13221

Oglethorpe County

Georgia

Oglethorpe 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; Georgia has other facilities nearby.

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At a glance

Public schools

4schools

Hospitals

0facilities

With a star rating

0facilities

Land area

439sq mi

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Oglethorpe 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

15,509people

2125th of 3,222

Median household income

$75,034

837th of 3,222, tied with 1

Poverty rate

11.6%

± 3.0% — 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

$231,600

1065th of 3,222, tied with 3

Median gross rent

$913

1357th of 3,222, tied with 8

Bachelor's degree or higher

25.3%

1179th of 3,222

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 Oglethorpe County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.

Obligations, FY2025

$97.8M

2379th of 3,233 among counties

Per resident

$6,5992020 population

Change since FY2021

+25%nominal

Fiscal years covered

5years

Federal obligations in Oglethorpe County, FY2021–FY2025
$70M$80M$90M$100M
$98M
202120232025
View as table
PeriodObligations
2021$78M
2022$76M
2023$82M
2024$90M
2025$98M

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. Oglethorpe County ranks 2379th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.

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Public schools in Oglethorpe County

Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.

Public schools in Oglethorpe County
SchoolDistrictCityEnrollment
Oglethorpe County Elementary SchoolOglethorpe CountyLexington476
Oglethorpe County High SchoolOglethorpe CountyLexington655
Oglethorpe County Middle SchoolOglethorpe CountyCrawford517
Oglethorpe County Primary SchoolOglethorpe CountyLexington563
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