* A national median of 0 indicates that more than half of counties took on no long-term debt in that year.

Years Available: 1998–2017

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General Notes: *Median value gives the value for the "average" county for this metric, the 50th percentile of all counties reporting data. **Public schools and public charter schools are sometimes administered out-of-state. SAGE Publications has excluded finances totals from those schools because they do not neatly fall under the umbrella of a county within the state that administers them, thus rendering county finances totals unreliable for comparison purposes. Data as reported by the school district. ***Indicates the data are not applicable. ****Indicates the data do not meet NCES data quality standards.