County / FIPS 13317
Wilkes County
Georgia
Wilkes County runs 5 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 1 Medicare-certified hospital reporting to CMS.
At a glance
Public schools
5
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
0
Land area
470
Wilkes 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
9,549
Median household income
$52,043
Poverty rate
17.8%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$122,700
Median gross rent
$786
Bachelor's degree or higher
16.9%
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.
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Wilkes County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$80.6M
Per resident
$8,427
Change since FY2021
+15%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $70M |
| 2022 | $65M |
| 2023 | $69M |
| 2024 | $71M |
| 2025 | $81M |
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. Wilkes County ranks 2542nd of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Wilkes County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Wills Memorial Hospital | Washington | Not rated |
Public schools in Wilkes County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Washington-Wilkes Comprehensive High School | Wilkes County | Washington | 356 |
| Washington-Wilkes Elementary School | Wilkes County | Washington | 265 |
| Washington-Wilkes Middle School | Wilkes County | Washington | 297 |
| Washington-Wilkes Primary School | Wilkes County | Washington | 347 |
| Wilkes County Regional Detention Center | Department of Juvenile Justice | Washington | 5 |