County / FIPS 47181
Wayne County
Tennessee
Wayne County runs 9 public schools reporting to NCES. It also has 1 Medicare-certified hospital reporting to CMS.
At a glance
Public schools
9
Hospitals
1
With a star rating
0
Land area
734
Wayne 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
16,168
Median household income
$52,294
Poverty rate
20.0%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$130,700
Median gross rent
$619
Bachelor's degree or higher
13.8%
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 Wayne County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$115.9M
Per resident
$7,138
Change since FY2021
+24%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $93M |
| 2022 | $91M |
| 2023 | $95M |
| 2024 | $103M |
| 2025 | $116M |
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. Wayne County ranks 2216th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Hospitals in Wayne County
| Hospital | City | CMS rating |
|---|---|---|
| Wayne Medical Center | Waynesboro | Not rated |
Public schools in Wayne County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Collinwood Elementary | Wayne County | Collinwood | 342 |
| Collinwood High School | Wayne County | Collinwood | 270 |
| Collinwood Middle School | Wayne County | Collinwood | 239 |
| Frank Hughes School | Wayne County | Clifton | 304 |
| Wayne County High School | Wayne County | Waynesboro | 277 |
| Waynesboro Elementary | Wayne County | Waynesboro | 426 |
| Waynesboro Middle School | Wayne County | Waynesboro | 290 |
| Wayne County Technology Center | Wayne County | Waynesboro | — |
| Wayne County Virtual School | Wayne County | Waynesboro | 14 |