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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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County / FIPS 51183

Sussex County

Virginia

Sussex County runs 3 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; Virginia has other facilities nearby.

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At a glance

Public schools

3schools

Hospitals

0facilities

With a star rating

0facilities

Land area

490sq mi

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Sussex 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

10,765people

2435th of 3,222

Median household income

$63,530

1747th of 3,222

Poverty rate

11.6%

± 2.9% — wide margin, not ranked

Unemployment rate

Not published

Sample too small here — the margin exceeds the figure by too much to report.

Median home value

$183,800

1588th of 3,222, tied with 1

Median gross rent

$907

1396th of 3,222, tied with 7

Bachelor's degree or higher

16.5%

± 2.8% — wide margin, not ranked

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.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates. Margins of error are the Bureau’s own, at 90% confidence; margins for rates are derived using the Bureau’s published formulas.

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Federal money

Obligations recorded against a place of performance in Sussex County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.

Obligations, FY2025

$76.1M

2583rd of 3,233 among counties

Per resident

$7,0232020 population

Change since FY2021

−61%nominal

Fiscal years covered

5years

Federal obligations in Sussex County, FY2021–FY2025
$50M$100M$150M$200M
$76M
202120232025
View as table
PeriodObligations
2021$196M
2022$83M
2023$83M
2024$73M
2025$76M

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. Sussex County ranks 2583rd of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.

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Public schools in Sussex County

Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.

Public schools in Sussex County
SchoolDistrictCityEnrollment
Sussex Central ElementarySussex County Public SchoolsStony Creek443
Sussex Central HighSussex County Public SchoolsStony Creek319
Sussex Central MiddleSussex County Public SchoolsStony Creek236
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