116,427 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.2% since 2020)
606 square miles of land · 192 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.
8 active community water systems list Calhoun County in the area they serve, reporting 152,553 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| ANNISTON ALABAMA, THE WWSB OF THE CITY O surface water · local government · AL0000133 | 56,865 served |
| CALHOUN COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY buys surface water · local government · AL0000131 | 32,796 served |
| OXFORD WATER WORKS & SEWER BOARD surface water · local government · AL0000162 | 31,239 served |
| JACKSONVILLE WATER WORKS GAS AND SEWER buys surface water · local government · AL0000154 | 14,217 served |
| PIEDMONT UTILITIES BOARD surface water · local government · AL0000164 | 8,073 served |
| WEAVER, CITY OF groundwater · local government · AL0000168 | 7,050 served |
| OHATCHEE WATER SYSTEM buys groundwater · local government · AL0000161 | 1,686 served |
| HOBSON CITY WATER SYSTEM buys surface water · local government · AL0000149 | 627 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 502 people were held in Calhoun County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 675 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 487.
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.
4 school districts have their office in Calhoun County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $66.7 million — $56.8 million to run schools, about $13,521 per student, plus $8.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $24.8 million local (mostly property tax), $31 million state, $10.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $54.7 million.
Spent $36.1 million — $29.2 million to run schools, about $15,450 per student, plus $5.7 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $10.6 million local (mostly property tax), $16.7 million state, $14.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $37,000.
Spent $29.5 million — $21 million to run schools, about $12,001 per student, plus $7.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.5 million local (mostly property tax), $14.8 million state, $3.6 million federal. Long-term debt: $16.6 million.
Spent $14.6 million — $12.8 million to run schools, about $11,284 per student, plus $1.4 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $3.5 million local (mostly property tax), $10 million state, $3 million federal. Long-term debt: $1.5 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 Moderate compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Calhoun County about $53.8 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Relatively Moderate; social vulnerability: Very High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
386 bridges in Calhoun County: 122 in good condition, 249 fair, and 15 poor (3.9%). “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.
| SR 9 over COTTAQUILA CREEK · built 1940 | 3,672 vehicles a day |
| ALEX-WELL. RD. over ALEXANDRIA CREEK · built 1935 | 2,573 vehicles a day |
| AIRPORT ROAD over COLDWATER CREEK · built 1974 | 1,000 vehicles a day |
| Grayton Rd. over OHATCHEE CREEK · built 1939 | 912 vehicles a day |
| READS MILL RD. over OHATCHEE CREEK · built 1966 | 493 vehicles a day |
| ALEX-WELL RD. over TALLAHATCHEE CREEK · built 1954 | 327 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $40.7 million of work in Calhoun County in fiscal 2025, about $350 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 Calhoun 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 Calhoun County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Cleburne County (19 mi) · Etowah County (22 mi) · Cherokee County (23 mi) · St. Clair County (28 mi) · Talladega County (34 mi) · Clay County (35 mi).