County / FIPS 47171
Unicoi County
Tennessee
Unicoi County runs 7 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; Tennessee has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
7
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
186
Unicoi 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
17,756
Median household income
$52,218
Poverty rate
14.3%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$189,600
Median gross rent
$750
Bachelor's degree or higher
21.3%
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 Unicoi County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$308.2M
Per resident
$17,194
Change since FY2021
+92%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $160M |
| 2022 | $166M |
| 2023 | $220M |
| 2024 | $206M |
| 2025 | $308M |
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. Unicoi County ranks 1223rd of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in Unicoi County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Love Chapel Elementary | Unicoi County | Erwin | 362 |
| Rock Creek Elementary | Unicoi County | Erwin | 197 |
| Temple Hill Elementary | Unicoi County | Erwin | 83 |
| Unicoi Co High School | Unicoi County | Erwin | 713 |
| Unicoi Co Middle School | Unicoi County | Erwin | 446 |
| Unicoi Community Learning Center | Unicoi County | Erwin | 102 |
| Unicoi Elementary | Unicoi County | Unicoi | 317 |