County / FIPS 37009
Ashe County
North Carolina
Ashe County runs 6 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 1 Medicare-certified hospital reporting to CMS, of which 1 carry an overall star rating.
At a glance
Public schools
6
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
1
Land area
426
Ashe 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
26,950
Median household income
$56,866
Poverty rate
13.5%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$243,100
Median gross rent
$859
Bachelor's degree or higher
25.9%
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 Ashe County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$409.2M
Per resident
$15,398
Change since FY2021
+121%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $185M |
| 2022 | $212M |
| 2023 | $195M |
| 2024 | $204M |
| 2025 | $409M |
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. Ashe County ranks 1007th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Ashe County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Ashe Memorial Hospital | Jefferson |
Public schools in Ashe County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashe County Early College High | Ashe County Schools | West Jefferson | 135 |
| Ashe County High | Ashe County Schools | West Jefferson | 792 |
| Ashe County Middle | Ashe County Schools | Warrensville | 440 |
| Blue Ridge Elementary | Ashe County Schools | Warrensville | 360 |
| Mountain View Elementary | Ashe County Schools | Jefferson | 536 |
| Westwood Elementary | Ashe County Schools | West Jefferson | 480 |