County / FIPS 37017
Bladen County
North Carolina
Bladen County runs 15 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 1 Medicare-certified hospital reporting to CMS.
At a glance
Public schools
15
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
0
Land area
875
Bladen 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
29,566
Median household income
$42,422
Poverty rate
22.0%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$135,100
Median gross rent
$773
Bachelor's degree or higher
19.5%
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 Bladen County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$283.7M
Per resident
$9,582
Change since FY2021
+10%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $258M |
| 2022 | $241M |
| 2023 | $235M |
| 2024 | $250M |
| 2025 | $284M |
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. Bladen County ranks 1295th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Bladen County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Cape Fear Valley-Bladen County Hospital | Elizabethtown | Not rated |
Public schools in Bladen County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bladen Early College | Bladen County Schools | Dublin | 139 |
| Bladen Lakes Primary | Bladen County Schools | Elizabethtown | 136 |
| Bladenboro Middle | Bladen County Schools | Bladenboro | 277 |
| Bladenboro Primary | Bladen County Schools | Bladenboro | 403 |
| Clarkton School of Discovery | Bladen County Schools | Clarkton | 212 |
| Dublin Primary | Bladen County Schools | Dublin | 227 |
| East Arcadia Elementary | Bladen County Schools | Riegelwood | 50 |
| East Bladen High | Bladen County Schools | Elizabethtown | 545 |
| Elizabethtown Middle | Bladen County Schools | Elizabethtown | 320 |
| Elizabethtown Primary | Bladen County Schools | Elizabethtown | 503 |
| Paul R. Brown Leadership Academy | Paul R Brown Leadership Academy | Elizabethtown | 148 |
| Plain View Primary | Bladen County Schools | Tar Heel | 183 |
| Tar Heel Middle | Bladen County Schools | Tar Heel | 287 |
| West Bladen High | Bladen County Schools | Bladenboro | 701 |
| Emereau: Bladen | Emereau: Bladen | Elizabethtown | 580 |