County / FIPS 37153
Richmond County
North Carolina
Richmond County runs 15 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
15
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
474
Richmond 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
42,344
Median household income
$44,883
Poverty rate
25.2%
Unemployment rate
9.8%
Median home value
$127,800
Median gross rent
$724
Bachelor's degree or higher
16.0%
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Richmond County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$385.8M
Per resident
$8,983
Change since FY2021
+17%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $329M |
| 2022 | $319M |
| 2023 | $317M |
| 2024 | $343M |
| 2025 | $386M |
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. Richmond County ranks 1050th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in Richmond County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ashley Chapel Educational Center | Richmond County Schools | Rockingham | 92 |
| Cordova Middle | Richmond County Schools | Cordova | 270 |
| East Rockingham Elementary | Richmond County Schools | Rockingham | 514 |
| Ellerbe Middle | Richmond County Schools | Ellerbe | 212 |
| Fairview Heights Elementary | Richmond County Schools | Hamlet | 504 |
| Hamlet Middle | Richmond County Schools | Hamlet | 425 |
| L J Bell Elementary | Richmond County Schools | Rockingham | 476 |
| Mineral Springs Elementary | Richmond County Schools | Ellerbe | 371 |
| Monroe Avenue Elementary | Richmond County Schools | Hamlet | 407 |
| Richmond 9th Grade Academy | Richmond County Schools | Hamlet | 491 |
| Richmond Early College High | Richmond County Schools | Hamlet | 295 |
| Richmond Senior High | Richmond County Schools | Rockingham | 1,286 |
| Rockingham Middle | Richmond County Schools | Rockingham | 616 |
| Washington Street Elementary | Richmond County Schools | Rockingham | 434 |
| West Rockingham Elementary | Richmond County Schools | Rockingham | 285 |