60,163 people (2024 Census estimate, +1.8% since 2020)
645 square miles of land · 93 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.
11 active community water systems list Blount County in the area they serve, reporting 68,910 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| ONEONTA, UB OF THE CITY OF surface water · local government · AL0000103 | 19,971 served |
| BLOUNT COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY surface water · local government · AL0001783 | 19,074 served |
| PINE BLUFF WATER AUTHORITY buys surface water · local government · AL0000104 | 6,330 served |
| SNEAD WATER WORKS, TOWN OF groundwater · local government · AL0000108 | 6,111 served |
| BLOUNTSVILLE, THE UB OF THE TOWN OF groundwater · local government · AL0000100 | 4,266 served |
| CLEVELAND WATER WORKS buys surface water · local government · AL0000101 | 3,516 served |
| NECTAR, TOWN OF buys surface water · local government · AL0000122 | 3,288 served |
| HAYDEN WATER WORKS buys surface water · local government · AL0000102 | 2,631 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 151 people were held in Blount County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 409 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 143.
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 Blount County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $101.5 million — $89.4 million to run schools, about $11,462 per student, plus $9.5 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $22 million local (mostly property tax), $73.8 million state, $18.1 million federal. Long-term debt: $31 million.
Spent $18 million — $16.6 million to run schools, about $11,816 per student, plus $401,000 on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.5 million local (mostly property tax), $12.2 million state, $2.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $305,000.
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 Blount County about $21.3 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
178 bridges in Blount County: 24 in good condition, 140 fair, and 14 poor (7.9%). “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.
| AL - 74 (US 278) over BIG SPRING CREEK · built 1953 | 5,810 vehicles a day |
| AL 160 over PANNEL CREEK · built 1950 | 4,441 vehicles a day |
| AL - 53 (US 231) over STRAWBERRY CREEK · built 1931 | 4,370 vehicles a day |
| SWANN BRIDGE ROAD over UNK CREEK TO LOCUST FORK · built 1948 | 324 vehicles a day |
| RIDGEWAY ROAD over DRY CREEK · built 1958 | 225 vehicles a day |
| CHAMBLEE MILL RD over COPELAND CREEK · built 1946 | 186 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $10.5 million of work in Blount County in fiscal 2025, about $177 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 Blount 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 Blount County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Cullman County (20 mi) · St. Clair County (23 mi) · Marshall County (27 mi) · Etowah County (31 mi) · Jefferson County (35 mi) · Morgan County (37 mi).