County / FIPS 37183
Wake County
North Carolina
Wake County runs 232 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 6 Medicare-certified hospitals reporting to CMS, of which 3 carry an overall star rating.
At a glance
Public schools
232
Hospitals
6
With a star rating
3
Land area
835
Wake 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
1,178,653
Median household income
$105,768
Poverty rate
8.1%
Unemployment rate
4.1%
Median home value
$461,300
Median gross rent
$1,623
Bachelor's degree or higher
57.2%
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Wake County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$12.9B
Per resident
$11,426
Change since FY2021
−8%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $14B |
| 2022 | $8B |
| 2023 | $8B |
| 2024 | $8B |
| 2025 | $13B |
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. Wake County ranks 49th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Wake County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Rex Hospital | Raleigh | |
| Wakemed, Cary Hospital | Cary | |
| Wakemed, Raleigh Campus | Raleigh | |
| Holly Hill Mental Health Services | Raleigh | Not rated |
| Raleigh Oaks Behavioral Health | Garner | Not rated |
| Triangle Springs | Raleigh | Not rated |
Public schools in Wake County
The 40 most complete records of 232. Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abbotts Creek Elementary | Wake County Schools | Raleigh | 801 |
| Adams Elementary | Wake County Schools | Cary | 525 |
| Alston Ridge Elementary | Wake County Schools | Cary | 1,047 |
| Alston Ridge Middle | Wake County Schools | Cary | 1,459 |
| Apex Elementary | Wake County Schools | Apex | 630 |
| Apex Friendship Elementary | Wake County Schools | Apex | 782 |
| Apex Friendship High | Wake County Schools | Apex | 2,772 |
| Apex Friendship Middle | Wake County Schools | Apex | 1,397 |
| Apex High | Wake County Schools | Apex | 2,500 |
| Apex Middle | Wake County Schools | Apex | 905 |
| Athens Drive High | Wake County Schools | Raleigh | 2,062 |
| Aversboro Elementary | Wake County Schools | Garner | 377 |
| Baileywick Road Elementary | Wake County Schools | Raleigh | 351 |
| Ballentine Elementary | Wake County Schools | Fuquay Varina | 679 |
| Banks Road Elementary | Wake County Schools | Raleigh | 648 |
| Barton Pond Elementary | Wake County Schools | Raleigh | 404 |
| Barwell Road Elementary | Wake County Schools | Raleigh | 672 |
| Baucom Elementary | Wake County Schools | Apex | 506 |
| Beaverdam Elementary | Wake County Schools | Raleigh | 704 |
| Brassfield Elementary | Wake County Schools | Raleigh | 586 |
| Brentwood Elementary | Wake County Schools | Raleigh | 389 |
| Briarcliff Elementary | Wake County Schools | Cary | 448 |
| Brier Creek Elementary | Wake County Schools | Raleigh | 549 |
| Brooks Elementary | Wake County Schools | Raleigh | 439 |
| Bryan Road Elementary | Wake County Schools | Garner | 649 |
| Buckhorn Creek Elementary | Wake County Schools | Holly Springs | 761 |
| Bugg Elementary | Wake County Schools | Raleigh | 232 |
| Cardinal Charter Acad at Wendell Falls | Cardinal Charter Acad at Wendell Falls | Wendell | 786 |
| Cardinal Charter Academy | Cardinal Charter | Cary | 700 |
| Carnage Middle | Wake County Schools | Raleigh | 844 |
| Carpenter Elementary | Wake County Schools | Cary | 657 |
| Carroll Middle | Wake County Schools | Raleigh | 871 |
| Carver Elementary | Wake County Schools | Wendell | 413 |
| Cary Elementary | Wake County Schools | Cary | 470 |
| Cary High | Wake County Schools | Cary | 2,145 |
| Cedar Fork Elementary | Wake County Schools | Morrisville | 773 |
| Centennial Campus Middle | Wake County Schools | Raleigh | 509 |
| Combs Elementary | Wake County Schools | Raleigh | 622 |
| Conn Elementary | Wake County Schools | Raleigh | 512 |
| Creech Road Elementary | Wake County Schools | Garner | 499 |