261,608 people (2024 Census estimate, +12.2% since 2020)
1,590 square miles of land · 165 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.
15 active community water systems list Baldwin County in the area they serve, reporting 307,515 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| FAIRHOPE, CITY OF groundwater · local government · AL0000035 | 59,850 served |
| FOLEY, UTILITIES BOARD OF THE CITY OF groundwater · local government · AL0000036 | 50,919 served |
| GULF SHORES, THE UB OF THE CITY OF groundwater · local government · AL0000038 | 40,947 served |
| DAPHNE, UTILITIES BOARD OF THE CITY OF groundwater · local government · AL0000029 | 33,372 served |
| NORTH BALDWIN UTILITIES groundwater · local government · AL0000023 | 28,713 served |
| ORANGE BEACH WATER SEWER AND F.P.A. groundwater · local government · AL0000053 | 17,796 served |
| BELFOREST WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · AL0000025 | 17,268 served |
| ROBERTSDALE, CITY OF groundwater · local government · AL0000061 | 13,242 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 479 people were held in Baldwin County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 310 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 659.
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.
2 school districts have their office in Baldwin County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $491.2 million — $412.7 million to run schools, about $13,095 per student, plus $67.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $271.3 million local (mostly property tax), $225 million state, $47.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $197.5 million.
Spent $42.4 million — $32.6 million to run schools, about $13,303 per student, plus $8.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $29.8 million local (mostly property tax), $12.6 million state, $3.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $28 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 High compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Baldwin County about $237.4 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very High; social vulnerability: Relatively Moderate.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
382 bridges in Baldwin County: 180 in good condition, 197 fair, and 5 poor (1.3%). “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 98 over FLY CREEK · built 1968 | 33,798 vehicles a day |
| CO.RD.32 over FISH RIVER · built 1962 | 7,317 vehicles a day |
| U.S. 98 (SCENIC) over POINT CLEAR CREEK · built 1997 | 5,931 vehicles a day |
| STILL ROAD over HOLLINGER CREEK · built 1957 | 57 vehicles a day |
| TRUCK TRAIL 17 over STYX RIVER · built 1929 | 37 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $229.1 million of work in Baldwin County in fiscal 2025, about $988 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 Baldwin 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 Baldwin County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Mobile County (27 mi) · Escambia County, FL (27 mi) · Santa Rosa County, FL (43 mi) · Escambia County (47 mi) · Jackson County, MS (54 mi) · George County, MS (55 mi).