County / FIPS 37073
Gates County
North Carolina
Gates County runs 5 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; North Carolina has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
5
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
341
Gates 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
10,376
Median household income
$66,333
Poverty rate
Not published
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$170,800
Median gross rent
$1,143
Bachelor's degree or higher
10.9%
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 Gates County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$87.2M
Per resident
$8,327
Change since FY2021
+18%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $74M |
| 2022 | $73M |
| 2023 | $71M |
| 2024 | $73M |
| 2025 | $87M |
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. Gates County ranks 2474th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in Gates County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buckland Elementary | Gates County Schools | Gates | 239 |
| Central Middle School | Gates County Schools | Gatesville | 345 |
| Gates County Senior High | Gates County Schools | Gatesville | 479 |
| Gatesville Elementary | Gates County Schools | Gatesville | 260 |
| T S Cooper Elementary | Gates County Schools | Sunbury | 174 |