37,748 people (2024 Census estimate, +0.6% since 2020)
1,031 square miles of land · 37 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.
10 active community water systems list Covington County in the area they serve, reporting 46,955 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| ANDALUSIA, UTILITIES BOARD OF groundwater · local government · AL0000356 | 15,251 served |
| COVINGTON COUNTY WATER AUTHORITY groundwater · private · AL0000361 | 13,224 served |
| OPP UTILITIES BOARD groundwater · local government · AL0000375 | 10,266 served |
| FLORALA WATER WORKS & SEWER BOARD groundwater · local government · AL0000363 | 3,834 served |
| RIVER FALLS WATER SYSTEM groundwater · local government · AL0000379 | 1,050 served |
| RED LEVEL WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · AL0000378 | 855 served |
| GANTT WATER SYSTEM buys groundwater · local government · AL0000364 | 801 served |
| LOCKHART WATER WORKS groundwater · local government · AL0000372 | 726 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 256 people were held in Covington County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2019), or 1,126 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2014 it was about 217.
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 Covington County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $111.4 million — $97.5 million to run schools, about $12,117 per student, plus $10.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $29 million local (mostly property tax), $68.5 million state, $21.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $48.7 million.
Spent $47.2 million — $36 million to run schools, about $11,826 per student, plus $10.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $11.9 million local (mostly property tax), $28.7 million state, $8.2 million federal. Long-term debt: $4.5 million.
Spent $25.2 million — $22.6 million to run schools, about $12,084 per student, plus $1.9 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $7.3 million local (mostly property tax), $14.7 million state, $5.4 million federal. Long-term debt: $3.1 million.
Spent $19.9 million — $17.1 million to run schools, about $12,836 per student, plus $2.1 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $4.9 million local (mostly property tax), $12.2 million state, $4.3 million federal. Long-term debt: $7.7 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 Covington County about $33.1 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.
329 bridges in Covington County: 106 in good condition, 191 fair, and 32 poor (9.7%). “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.
| COUNTY RD 42 over Indian Creek · built 1937 | 590 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD 31 over FIVE RUNNS CREEK · built 1958 | 490 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD 38 over POLEY CREEK · built 1963 | 440 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD 86 over GANTT LAKE · built 1954 | 360 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY DIRT RD over NO NAME BRANCH · built 1950 | 360 vehicles a day |
| COUNTY RD 47 over INDIAN CREEK · built 1963 | 350 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $10.2 million of work in Covington County in fiscal 2025, about $273 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 Covington 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 Covington County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Coffee County (29 mi) · Conecuh County (34 mi) · Crenshaw County (34 mi) · Butler County (38 mi) · Geneva County (38 mi) · Escambia County (43 mi).