U.S. State / FIPS 06
California
California has 58 counties, 10,418 public schools and 377 Medicare-certified hospitals reporting to CMS — the 279 carrying an overall star rating average 3.10 out of 5.
At a glance
Counts come from the current release; nothing here is estimated.
Public schools
10,418
School districts
2,149
Hospitals
377
Counties
58
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in California. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$485.7B
Per resident
$12,283
Change since FY2017
+57%
Fiscal years covered
9
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2017 | $310B |
| 2018 | $312B |
| 2019 | $312B |
| 2020 | $463B |
| 2021 | $510B |
| 2022 | $425B |
| 2023 | $424B |
| 2024 | $445B |
| 2025 | $486B |
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. California ranks 1st of 56 on this measure in FY2025.
Most complete reporters
Hospitals reporting the most quality measures to CMS. More measures means a fuller public record, not necessarily better care — the two are easy to confuse and are kept separate here.
- 1Providence St. Jude Medical Center52 measures
- 2Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital52 measures
- 3Stanford Health Care52 measures
- 4Cedars-Sinai Medical Center51 measures
- 5Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula51 measures
- 6Community Memorial Hospital - Ventura51 measures
- 7Eisenhower Medical Center51 measures
- 8El Camino Health51 measures
- 9Enloe Health51 measures
- 10Kaweah Health Medical Center51 measures
Hospitals in California
40 of 377 shown, ordered by how complete their public record is.
School districts in California
The 40 largest of 2,149 by enrollment. The full list, and every school in each district, is on the districts page.
Counties
All 58 counties, each with its own page.
California counties
- Alameda
- Alpine
- Amador
- Butte
- Calaveras
- Colusa
- Contra Costa
- Del Norte
- El Dorado
- Fresno
- Glenn
- Humboldt
- Imperial
- Inyo
- Kern
- Kings
- Lake
- Lassen
- Los Angeles
- Madera
- Marin
- Mariposa
- Mendocino
- Merced
- Modoc
- Mono
- Monterey
- Napa
- Nevada
- Orange
- Placer
- Plumas
- Riverside
- Sacramento
- San Benito
- San Bernardino
- San Diego
- San Francisco
- San Joaquin
- San Luis Obispo
- San Mateo
- Santa Barbara
- Santa Clara
- Santa Cruz
- Shasta
- Sierra
- Siskiyou
- Solano
- Sonoma
- Stanislaus
- Sutter
- Tehama
- Trinity
- Tulare
- Tuolumne
- Ventura
- Yolo
- Yuba
Rankings covering this state
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