15,905 people (2024 Census estimate, +5.6% since 2020)
560 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.
4 active community water systems list Cleburne County in the area they serve, reporting 15,543 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| CLEBURNE COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY buys surface water · local government · AL0001761 | 8,307 served |
| HEFLIN, THE WATER WORKS AND SEWER BOARD surface water · local government · AL0000279 | 4,590 served |
| RANBURNE WATER & SEWER DEPARTMENT buys surface water · local government · AL0000283 | 2,061 served |
| EDWARDSVILLE WATER & FIRE PRO AUTHORITY buys surface water · local government · AL0000277 | 585 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 53 people were held in Cleburne County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2021), or 571 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2016 it was about 58.
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 Cleburne County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $34.3 million — $31.9 million to run schools, about $12,719 per student, plus $1.6 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $6.6 million local (mostly property tax), $22.6 million state, $5.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $7.6 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: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Cleburne County about $6 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.
163 bridges in Cleburne County: 52 in good condition, 100 fair, and 11 poor (6.7%). “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.
| CO 10 over KNOKES CREEK · built 1951 | 725 vehicles a day |
| CO 65 over Muscadine CREEK · built 1957 | 450 vehicles a day |
| CO 60 over TALLAPOOSA RIVER · built 1950 | 220 vehicles a day |
| CO 50 over MUSCADINE CREEK · built 1967 | 93 vehicles a day |
| C0 94 over TERRAPIN CREEK · built 1930 | 65 vehicles a day |
| CO 84 over TALLAPOOSA RIVER · built 1951 | 60 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $44.7 million of work in Cleburne County in fiscal 2025, about $2,970 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 Cleburne 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 Cleburne County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Haralson County, GA (19 mi) · Calhoun County (19 mi) · Carroll County, GA (26 mi) · Randolph County (26 mi) · Cherokee County (29 mi) · Polk County, GA (29 mi).