County / FIPS 50009
Essex County
Vermont
Essex County runs 5 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; Vermont has other facilities nearby.
At a glance
Public schools
5
Hospitals
0
With a star rating
0
Land area
662
Essex 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
5,982
Median household income
$59,294
Poverty rate
13.8%
Unemployment rate
Not published
Median home value
$172,500
Median gross rent
$827
Bachelor's degree or higher
21.5%
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 Essex County. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$60.5M
Per resident
$10,215
Change since FY2021
+33%
Fiscal years covered
5
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2021 | $45M |
| 2022 | $50M |
| 2023 | $52M |
| 2024 | $55M |
| 2025 | $60M |
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. Essex County ranks 2765th of 3,233 on this measure in FY2025.
Public schools in Essex County
Enrollment is the most recent year NCES published.
| School | District | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Elementary School | Brighton School District | Island Pond | 135 |
| Canaan Schools | Canaan School District | Canaan | 169 |
| Concord Graded/Middle School | Kingdom East Unified Union School District #64 | Concord | 156 |
| Lunenburg & Gilman Schools | Kingdom East Unified Union School District #64 | Gilman | 60 |
| Canaan High School Cte Program | Canaan School District | Canaan | — |