61,464 people (2024 Census estimate, +4.3% since 2020)
594 square miles of land · 103 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
6 active community water systems list Autauga County in the area they serve, reporting 71,034 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| PRATTVILLE, THE WW BOARD OF THE CITY OF buys surface water · local government · AL0000017 | 46,614 served |
| MARBURY WATER SYSTEM, INC. buys surface water · local government · AL0000013 | 8,670 served |
| AUTAUGA CO WATER AUTHORITY groundwater · local government · AL0000001 | 7,710 served |
| WEST AUTAUGA WATER AUTHORITY groundwater · local government · AL0001750 | 5,106 served |
| AUTAUGAVILLE WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · AL0000002 | 1,494 served |
| BILLINGSLEY WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · AL0000003 | 1,440 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 153 people were held in Autauga County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2022), or 397 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2017 it was about 196.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
1 school district has its office in Autauga County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $127.2 million — $103.2 million to run schools, about $11,214 per student, plus $20.2 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $30 million local (mostly property tax), $75.3 million state, $20.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $50.1 million.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Relatively Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Autauga County about $19.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Relatively Low.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
117 bridges in Autauga County: 46 in good condition, 70 fair, and 1 poor (0.9%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| US 82 over ICG RR · built 1957 | 10,990 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $7.1 million of work in Autauga County in fiscal 2025, about $121 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Alabama are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Autauga County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Autauga County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Chilton County (23 mi) · Lowndes County (27 mi) · Elmore County (30 mi) · Dallas County (30 mi) · Montgomery County (34 mi) · Coosa County (36 mi).