24,358 people (2024 Census estimate, −2.5% since 2020)
885 square miles of land · 28 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.
9 active community water systems list Barbour County in the area they serve, reporting 35,958 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| EUFAULA WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · AL0000085 | 17,970 served |
| BAKERHILL WATER AUTHORITY groundwater · local government · AL0000079 | 7,056 served |
| CLIO WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · AL0000083 | 2,832 served |
| CLAYTON WATER WORKS & SEWER groundwater · local government · AL0000082 | 2,064 served |
| COWIKEE WATER AUTHORITY groundwater · local government · AL0001460 | 1,995 served |
| WEST BARBOUR CO WATER AUTHORITY groundwater · local government · AL0000087 | 1,395 served |
| LOUISVILLE WATER WORKS, TOWN OF groundwater · local government · AL0000088 | 1,350 served |
| MT. ANDREW WATER AUTHORITY buys groundwater · local government · AL0000089 | 660 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 6 people were held in Barbour County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2023), or 39 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2018 it was about 111.
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 Barbour County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $68.7 million — $62.6 million to run schools, about $9,960 per student, plus $5.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $8.2 million local (mostly property tax), $49.6 million state, $12.5 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.4 million.
Spent $17 million — $13 million to run schools, about $18,210 per student, plus $3 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $2.5 million local (mostly property tax), $6.8 million state, $9.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $3.6 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 Barbour County about $8.9 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
192 bridges in Barbour County: 105 in good condition, 81 fair, and 6 poor (3.1%). “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.
| MARTIN CRK RD over MARTIN CREEK · built 1939 | 50 vehicles a day |
| MARTIN CRK RD over MARTIN CREEK · built 1954 | 50 vehicles a day |
| MARTIN CRK RD over MARTIN CREEK · built 1952 | 45 vehicles a day |
| DOYLE SANDERS RD over HURRICANE CREEK · built 1963 | 35 vehicles a day |
| DRY CREEK RD over DRY CREEK · built 1941 | 15 vehicles a day |
| MCGOO FLATS RD over NORTH FORK COWIKEE CREEK · built 1946 | 15 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $14.9 million of work in Barbour County in fiscal 2025, about $591 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 Barbour 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 Barbour County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Quitman County, GA (23 mi) · Bullock County (24 mi) · Henry County (26 mi) · Clay County, GA (30 mi) · Russell County (32 mi) · Pike County (32 mi).