U.S. State / FIPS 37
North Carolina
North Carolina has 100 counties, 2,773 public schools and 120 Medicare-certified hospitals reporting to CMS — the 90 carrying an overall star rating average 3.30 out of 5.
At a glance
Counts come from the current release; nothing here is estimated.
Public schools
2,773
School districts
376
Hospitals
120
Counties
100
Federal money
Obligations recorded against a place of performance in North Carolina. An obligation is a legal commitment to pay, not cash out the door — outlays follow later, sometimes by years.
Obligations, FY2025
$129.5B
Per resident
$12,401
Change since FY2017
+89%
Fiscal years covered
9
▸ View as table
| Period | Obligations |
|---|---|
| 2017 | $69B |
| 2018 | $72B |
| 2019 | $77B |
| 2020 | $105B |
| 2021 | $118B |
| 2022 | $99B |
| 2023 | $101B |
| 2024 | $109B |
| 2025 | $129B |
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. North Carolina ranks 13th 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.
- 1Duke University Hospital52 measures
- 2Ecu Health Medical Center52 measures
- 3Firsthealth Moore Regional Hospital52 measures
- 4Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center52 measures
- 5Cape Fear Valley Medical Center51 measures
- 6Carolinas Medical Center-Northeast51 measures
- 7North Carolina Baptist Hospital51 measures
- 8Rex Hospital51 measures
- 9Unc Hospitals51 measures
- 10Wakemed, Raleigh Campus51 measures
Hospitals in North Carolina
40 of 120 shown, ordered by how complete their public record is.
School districts in North Carolina
The 40 largest of 376 by enrollment. The full list, and every school in each district, is on the districts page.
Counties
All 100 counties, each with its own page.
North Carolina counties
- Alamance
- Alexander
- Alleghany
- Anson
- Ashe
- Avery
- Beaufort
- Bertie
- Bladen
- Brunswick
- Buncombe
- Burke
- Cabarrus
- Caldwell
- Camden
- Carteret
- Caswell
- Catawba
- Chatham
- Cherokee
- Chowan
- Clay
- Cleveland
- Columbus
- Craven
- Cumberland
- Currituck
- Dare
- Davidson
- Davie
- Duplin
- Durham
- Edgecombe
- Forsyth
- Franklin
- Gaston
- Gates
- Graham
- Granville
- Greene
- Guilford
- Halifax
- Harnett
- Haywood
- Henderson
- Hertford
- Hoke
- Hyde
- Iredell
- Jackson
- Johnston
- Jones
- Lee
- Lenoir
- Lincoln
- Macon
- Madison
- Martin
- McDowell
- Mecklenburg
- Mitchell
- Montgomery
- Moore
- Nash
- New Hanover
- Northampton
- Onslow
- Orange
- Pamlico
- Pasquotank
- Pender
- Perquimans
- Person
- Pitt
- Polk
- Randolph
- Richmond
- Robeson
- Rockingham
- Rowan
- Rutherford
- Sampson
- Scotland
- Stanly
- Stokes
- Surry
- Swain
- Transylvania
- Tyrrell
- Union
- Vance
- Wake
- Warren
- Washington
- Watauga
- Wayne
- Wilkes
- Wilson
- Yadkin
- Yancey
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